A new analysis conducted by the Alzheimer’s Association and the University of Minnesota found that nearly 60% of people caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or another dementia had at least one ...

A new study has found that eating just a handful of this healthy snack per day could stave off a scary syndrome that affects a whopping one in three Americans.

Dementia is now the fifth leading cause of death worldwide, placing a heavy burden on families, healthcare systems, and ...

Stroke and dementia as well as late-life depression are more common in people who have a biomarker of aging called short ...

A new study has found that dementia, stroke, and depression are more common in people with shorter telomeres — a biomarker of ...

While these numbers may sound worrying, the study also gives us hope. It shows that Alzheimer’s risk isn’t only written in ...

Hypertension, a global health crisis affecting over a billion adults, significantly elevates the risk of stroke, aneurysm, ...

As the number of older adults in the U.S. continues to climb, dementia is becoming one of the nation’s most pressing public ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is known to have a direct ... blood pressure control” resulted in a 15% reduced dementia risk among participants and a 16% reduced risk of cognitive impairment.

Adequate treatment of high blood pressure (BP) can substantially lower the risk for dementia or cognitive impairment without dementia, new data indicated. In a large study of Chinese adults with ...

"This large trial of over 33,000 people in rural China provides further evidence that addressing high blood pressure could be one way to reduce dementia risk." The new study is consistent with a ...