Dementia risk factors

Dementia Microchapters
Patient Information
Overview
Classification
Causes Alzheimer's Disease Parkinson's Disease Binswanger's Disease Dementia with Lewy bodies Thiamine deficiency Vascular dementia Marijuana abuse AIDS Neurosyphilis Normal pressure hydrocephalus Vitamin B12 deficiency Vitamin B6 deficiency
Differential Diagnosis

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
• Social isolation
• Late-life depression
• Female gender
• low IQ
• Genetics