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Loneliness Sparks Risk of Dementia

by Milly on Apr 29, 2009

Men and women who are living alone or got divorced are at a significant higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in later years of life, a Swedish study suggests.

The study, presented on Wednesday at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD 2008) at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, suggests that middle-aged single people are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease and other forms of age-related dementia than married ones or those with a partner.

The new research conducted by Krister Hakansson, a psychology researcher at the Vaxjo University and Karolinska Institute in Sweden, has found that those living alone in mid-life are 40 to 50 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer’s later in life.

Hakansson and colleagues reached their findings after studying the data from a Finnish study where 1449 people were examined at the age of around 50. All the participants, who were asked about their relationship...Read More >>



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UK researchers used 3000 children from a long-term project whose health was tracked from birth to 11 1/2. Of those who had no asthma at 3 1/2, 6 per cent developed symptoms by the age of 11.

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