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There is a lot that experts do not know dementia: Why this happens in some seniors and not others, for example. And there is no cure for the gradual condition. But scientists learn more about risk factors and a new study suggests that high blood pressure or high blood pressure - can increase the risk of dementia in women.

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Dementia is an umbrella term for many disorders that may result in memory, thought and personality changes that interfere with a person's ability to operate. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia; At least 5 million Americans are affected.

About 50 million people live with dementia around the world and that the number should triple by 2050, as the age of the population and people live longer. Keep reading to see if you have the risk factors.

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According to the CDC, the risk factors of dementia include:

• Age. This is the strongest risk factor. Above all, people over 65 are affected.
• Family history.
• Race / ethnicity. The African Americans are twice as likely and Hispanics are 1.5 times more likely, to develop dementia than whites.
• Poor cardiac health, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking.
• Traumatic brain lesion.

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In the new study, the researchers at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of New South Wales in Newtown, Australia, considered 502,226 people registered at a British biomedical database between 2006 and 2010. At first, none of the subjects - average age 56.5-had dementia. Over the next 12 years, 4,068 of them have developed dementia.

Scientists have found that several previously known risk factors for smoking dementia, diabetes, high body fat and low socio-economic status have affected equally for men and women.

But although more men than women develop dementia overall, hypertension seemed to increase the risk of dementia for women, after accounting for other potential factors.

"Our study suggests that a more individualized approach to treat blood pressure in comparative men [with] women can lead to even greater protection against the development of dementia," said Mark Woodward, co-author of the study, published in the newspaperBMC medicine.

Researchers noted that "cardiovascular risk factors are increasingly recognized as contributors to dementia," suggesting that it could be a vascular disease (linked to blood vessels).

"Given the lack of proven pharmaceutical treatments for dementia, public health strategies aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles are important to reduce the burden of dementia," wrote researchers. "Among the tests, aim to prevent cognitive decline or dementia, the highest proof resides in the treatment of hypertension".

They added that poverty as a risk factor justifies an additional study and "randomized blood pressure control tests are needed to understand its role in mitigating cognitive decline, and these tests should include a. equal number of women and men to clarify the potential. Sexual differences. "And to cross the healthiest life, do not miss:This supplement can increase your risk of cancer, tell experts.