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Dementia prevalance in 2040
FromThe BMJ Podcast
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20 minutes
Released:
Jul 5, 2017
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Description
The Alzheimer’s society, in the UK, predicts that if the rates of dementia remain constant there’ll be 1.7 million people in the country living with the condition by 2050. We also know that things like improvements in cardiovascular health are changing those rates.
New research published on bmj.com attempts to model what the outcomes of those changing factors might be, and Sara Ahmadi - Abhari, a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London, joins us to discuss that model.
Read the open access research:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j2856
New research published on bmj.com attempts to model what the outcomes of those changing factors might be, and Sara Ahmadi - Abhari, a research associate in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London, joins us to discuss that model.
Read the open access research:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j2856
Released:
Jul 5, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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