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Dementia Microchapters |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: ,Sabeeh Islam, MBBS[2]
Risk factors
- Degenerative: This is the most common cause of dementia, named Alzheimer's disease.
- Stroke
- Lewy body disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Huntington's disease
- Pick's disease
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Brain tumors
- Brain infection
- Low educational attainment
- Midlife hypertension
- Midlife obesity
- Elevated plasma homocysteine level
- Down Syndrome
- Smoking