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NeurologicalSevere
Dementia
Geriatrics · Neurological
Severe
Severity
Common — affects over 55 million people worldwide, rising sharply with age
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Geriatrics
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Results from progressive damage to brain cells caused by various underlying diseases
- 2most commonly Alzheimer's disease
- 3but also vascular damage from strokes
- 4Lewy body accumulation
- 5or frontotemporal degeneration. Risk factors include advancing age
- 6family history
- 7cardiovascular disease
- 8diabetes
- 9and lifestyle factors such as physical inactivity and lack of cognitive stimulation.
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