Eliminating smoking would cut the number of dementia diagnoses by 11,000 a year, it was claimed Jonathan Brady/PAAs many as one in three dementia cases could be prevented by encouraging people to lead healthier lives and treating conditions such as high blood pressure more aggressively, according to a landmark report. Eliminating smoking would cut the number of new diagnoses by 11,000 a year in the UK, while addressing hearing loss problems properly in middle age could reduce it by a further 20,000. New diagnoses are running at 225,000 a year and by 2025, one million people in Britain are forecast to have developed serious memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. That figure is expected to double by 2051. Around the world, dementia is expected to kill more people than any other disease in the 21st century.

Source: The Times July 19, 2017 23:03 UTC