A Question of Dementia

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Researchers Create Dementia 'Risk Score'
By Maria Cheng
Associated Press
03 August 2006

LONDON (AP) -- Researchers have for the first time developed a "risk score'' in an attempt to predictfuture cases of dementia. In a study published Thursday in the publication Lancet Neurology,researchers identified several key factors that arebelieved to determine dementia in later life.

"This has been done for other diseases like diabetesand cardio-vascular diseases, but we've never beforehad a tool like this for estimating the risk ofdementia,'' said Dr. Miia Kivipelto, an associate professor at the Aging Research Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, and the study's lead author.
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