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How the evidence stacks up for preventing Alzheimer’s disease

Scepticism towards the idea that lifestyle choices can reduce the risk of dementia is waning.
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Alzheimer’s disease has long been considered an inevitable consequence of ageing that is exacerbated by a genetic predisposition. Increasingly, however, it is thought to be influenced by modifiable lifestyle behaviours that might enable a person’s risk of developing the condition to be controlled. But even as evidence to support this idea has accumulated over the past decade, the research community has been slow to adopt the idea.

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Nature 559, S18-S20 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05724-7

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Alzheimer’s disease, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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