Have scientists discovered the lifestyle Ten Commandments for fending off Alzheimer’s disease? An extensive analysis of previous study evidence has resulted in the creation of a list of ten strategies we can adopt to stave off the most common form of dementia, which accounts for two-thirds of cases. These range from maintaining healthy blood pressure to staying intellectually challenged.
The list was published last week in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry by an international team who crunched the results of 395 high-level studies on Alzheimer’s risk. The report’s lead author, Jin-Tai Yu, a professor of neurology at Fudan University in Shanghai, says: “The system of meta-analysis that we used creates the highest level of medical evidence. All the risk factors we point out
