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Lowering Your Risk for Dementia

A new report from the Lancet Commission lays out 14 risk factors—some that may surprise you, and all that you can control to varying degrees

We do not yet have medications that can halt or reverse dementia, but there are plenty of ways to help lower the chances of developing it—including some steps you may already be taking. That’s the main message from a new report from the Lancet Commission, a panel of experts gathered ...

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