Nearly half of dementia cases may be influenced by modifiable factors like smoking, cardiovascular disease, and high blood pressure.

While many risk factors you can’t control come into play, such as genetics and family history, there’s one you can change. And that’s having a sedentary lifestyle. Most people spend a large portion of ...

Diabetic retinopathy severity, from nonproliferative to proliferative stages, is associated with an increased risk for vascular dementia.

Researchers have discovered a new way that brain blood flow problems are connected to a particular type of dementia called vascular dementia. They found that a protein called Piezo1 stops working ...

New noninvasive tools reveal that subtle shifts in brain blood flow and oxygen use may mirror key markers of Alzheimer’s risk ...

A growing body of research suggests that the most common cause of dementia in older people is a mix of vascular and Alzheimer's-related brain abnormalities, and that approximately half of people who ...

Vascular dementia is caused by blood flow issues in the brain: it's one of the most common types of dementia, but not as well researched or understood as others. Neuropathologist Elaine Bearer from ...

Fast food is fine in a pinch, but there are so many negative health effects associated with long-term consumption. These are the fast food menu items in particular that are linked to dementia.

These common daily behaviors can impact your cognitive health – and take a toll on your overall health, too.

Hearing loss and dementia affect millions of people worldwide. But headlines describing hearing loss as the "leading midlife risk factor" for dementia can be misleading. They often oversimplify ...

Dementia is commonly linked with ageing, but doctors occasionally diagnose it in people in their 40s. Experts say better awareness and improved diagnostic tools are helping doctors detect these cases ...