Page 3 - Dementia

Here's how dementia patients may benefit from music therapy

For the analysis, van der Steen and colleagues pooled data from 21 smaller randomised trials involving a total of 1097 patients

Don't sit for long hours, it may increase dementia risk, say scientists

The researchers recruited 35 people (aged between 45 and 75 years) for the study

Excessive drinking may be linked to early dementia risk: French study

For the study, researchers examined data from 2008-2013 on more than 31 million French hospital patients, including more than 1 million who were diagnosed with dementia

Marriage linked to lower risk of dementia

The widowed have a 20 per cent increased risk of developing dementia compared to married individuals

Blood-thinning drugs may cut dementia risk by up to 29%: Study

It looked at data from Swedish registries for patients between 2006 and 2014

Dementia risk in too much sleep

The increased risk was not seen in people who had always slept more than nine hours