Medscape (3/4, Anderson, Subscription Publication) reports researchers found that “bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are both linked to increased dementia risk.” Medscape adds, “Preliminary findings from the study, which included more than 3 million US veterans, showed that those with BD or schizophrenia had a significantly higher rate of dementia compared with their counterparts without these conditions.” The findings were presented at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2019 Annual Meeting.
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