New Tool to Help Predict Dementia Risk in Older People

The new risk assessment tool also presents the individual risk profile in a quickly interpretable visual form.

Preventing dementia is a major public health priority worldwide, and intense work is being conducted to formulate effective preventive strategies. Healthy lifestyle changes may help prevent cognitive decline and dementia, but the challenge is to detect early on those who are most at risk and to choose the most relevant preventive measures.

“The results of our study are very promising, as it is the first time this machine learning approach was used for estimating dementia risk in a cognitively normal general population,” says the lead researcher, Alina Solomon, MD, PhD, from the University of Eastern Finland.

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