MedPage Today (7/20, Sullivan) reports, “Significant differences in dementia incidence emerged based on neighborhood deprivation,” investigators concluded in “a study of 1.6 million U.S. veterans.” The study revealed that “over a mean follow-up of 11 years, older veterans in the most socioeconomically disadvantaged areas were 22% more likely to develop dementia than those in the least disadvantaged neighborhoods.” The findings were presented in a poster at the annual Alzheimer’s Association International Conference and simultaneously published online in JAMA Neurology.
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