Diabetes and cardiovascular disease increase dementia risk
People with at least two of the diseases type 2 diabetes, heart disease or stroke have double the risk of developing dementia. Prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease could therefore be a strategy for reducing dementia risk, a study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia suggests.Type 2 diabetes, heart diseases (ischemic heart disease, heart failure or atrial fibrillation) and stroke – so called cardiometabolic diseases – are some of the main risk factors for dementia. “Few studies have examined how the risk of dementia is affected