Do we know enough to begin prevention interventions for dementia?
This article reviews prior examples of successful prevention interventions and reviews whether comparable data are available to support a prevention campaign targeting later life cognitive decline and dementia. The evidence that risk factors for vascular disease--hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus--increase the incidence of dementia supports a prevention campaign now.
Rabins
Peter V
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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. pvrabins@jhmi.edu