People can reduce the risk for dementia by staying physically active and not smoking, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday, in its first guidelines on preventing this rapidly growing health phenomenon. Dementia is not a specific disease. It’s an overall term that describes a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory […]
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Air pollution can cause non-communicable diseases like stroke, diabetes, miscarriage, dementia, Parkinson disease and poor development in children, says a public health expert, Tolulope Tolufase. Tolufase, president, Moole Charity Foundation, said this in an interview with NAN. He said people are ignorant of the danger that air pollution resulting from man’s harmful activities to the […]
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Researchers say heavy drinking or long-term abstinence could both contribute to increased risk of developing dementia. Researchers from French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and UCL investigated the association between midlife alcohol consumption and risk of dementia into early old age. Their findings are based on 9,087 British civil servants aged between […]
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