Researchers have identified the top risk factors for dementia, an illness that affects more than 944,000 people in the UK.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a risk factor tool that can "strongly predict" whether or not a person will develop the condition in the next 14 years.
And they were found to assess with good accuracy whether or not people in mid-life would go on to develop dementia. This produced a list of 11 predictive factors which were then used to develop the UK Biobank Dementia Risk Score tool. They found that UKBDRS-APOE produced the highest predictive score, closely followed by the UKBDRS risk tool, according to the findings, which have been published in the journal BMJ Mental Health.
“Therefore, while the consistent performance of UKBDRS across these two independent groups boosts our confidence in its viability, we need to evaluate it across more diverse groups of people both within and beyond the UK.”
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