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Good Heart Health May Help Stave Off Dementia, Study Says in Drugs.com, March 10, 2015

Excerpts:
"Good heart health may help protect you against Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, a new study suggests.

Vanderbilt University researchers analyzed data from just over 1,000 people who were followed for 11 years. During that time, 32 participants developed dementia, including 26 with Alzheimer's.

People with poorer heart function were two to three times more likely to develop dementia than those with healthy hearts, according to the study recently published online in the journal Circulation.

"Heart function could prove to be a major risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer's disease," principal investigator Angela Jefferson, director of the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center, said in a university news release."

""For the average adult, the brain accounts for 2 percent of overall body weight but receives as much as 15 percent of blood leaving the heart,""

""At present, there is no proven method for preventing dementia or Alzheimer's disease. But leading a heart healthy lifestyle could help,"

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