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What’s your dementia risk 失智風險? New screening tool uses 11 risk factors to predict dementia with up to 80% accuracy

Millions of people globally live with dementia, a progressive neurodegenerative condition where one loses cognitive functioning- namely the loss of memory, thinking and reasoning skills. For people with dementia, the cognitive decline is so severe that it interferes with their daily life and activities. Recently, researchers developed a dementia risk score consisting of 11 riskContinue reading “What’s your dementia risk 失智風險? New screening tool uses 11 risk factors to predict dementia with up to 80% accuracy”