Having a larger waistline, high blood pressure and other risk factors that make up metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of young-onset dementia, according to a new study.

Some of the other modifiable risk factors mentioned in the study include high blood pressure and blood sugar levels, excess ...

Millions more Americans could be at risk of developing early-onset dementia after scientists discovered a possible new cause ... reviewed health insurance data from 2million people between ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, have shown that specific blood biomarkers can predict development of dementia up to 10 years before symptoms appear. But their primary value ...

online in Neurology ®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Young-onset dementia is diagnosed before the age of 65. The study does not prove that metabolic syndrome causes ...

A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that ...

How you manage a cluster of health ... dementia, only that there was a correlation between the two, Isaacson said. “I don’t really think that vascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is known to have a direct impact on heart attack and stroke risk — but a new study has revealed its surprising link to brain health. In a large, randomized ...

How you manage a cluster of health conditions known as metabolic syndrome could have a big impact on whether you develop ...

Dementia is an umbrella term that encompasses a range of brain disorders that all cause problems with cognition ... are caused by another underlying medical condition, disease (such as Huntington ...

Dr Julia Dudley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, called on the government to do more to tackle health and lifestyle factors that may cause dementia. 'This could mean introducing ...

Dementia is a term that encompasses a range of brain disorders. In older adults, the most common cause of dementia is ... can often be confused with mental health problems such as bipolar disorder ...