Shorter telomeres on the ends of white blood cell chromosomes may signal a heightened dementia risk, suggest the results of a large, long-term study published online in the journal General Psychiatry.
The UK Biobank is a large biomedical database containing in-depth genetic and health information for around half a million people in the UK who were enrolled between 2006 and 2010.
During an average monitoring period of nearly 12 years, 1,551 participants were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease; 767 with vascular dementia; and 5,820 with other type of dementia.
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