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NYU Langone Health research reveals how avoiding high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking in midlife could add nearly 13 ...

A new NYU Langone Health study found that avoiding smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes in middle age was linked to ...

“My father didn’t drink much alcohol, and he quit smoking. He also played Go diligently, which requires mental effort. So why did he develop dementia?” When his 80-year-old father was diagnosed with ...

Obstructive sleep apnea is linked to poorer memory performance and a higher estimated risk for dementia in cognitively unimpaired middle-aged adults.

New research has identified a possible link between a person’s outlook on life and their risk of developing dementia. The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, examined ...

Improving and maintaining optimal midlife vascular health is associated with an increased number of dementia-free survival years.

A long-term study of 12,409 adults found that a greater burden of diabetes, hypertension, and current smoking in midlife was ...

Think five minutes isn't enough time to make a difference in terms of health and well-being? It could actually be enough time to stave off a disease that afflicts many people in their later years.

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Most people picture dementia only as memory loss, confusion, and forgetting familiar faces. But the truth behind these symptoms is that these changes don’t happen overnight. And they don’t always ...

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