100,000 people under 65 have dementia: 15 factors increase the risk of the disease. Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Maastricht evaluated health data from more than 356,000 patients from the United Kingdom.
The results of the study were presented in the journal “Jama Neurology” at the end of 2023. The research team notes that dementia at younger ages is more often caused by genetic makeup than illnesses at older ages. But only five to ten percent of clinical dementia cases could be explained by genetic factors.