Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s

     The French have concluded a study on men and women who had mild cognitive impairment and them examined them two years later and then again four years later.

Those that suffered from depression, or taking anticholinergic drugs were more likely to go on to develop dementia.

It was also discovered that men and women have different risk factors. Men who have had a stroke were almost three times more likely to progress to dementia. Women who suffered from depression were two times as likely to get dementia.

Not all the people in the study went on to develop dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. There was a small percentage that recovered to normal cognitive ability.