Being stressed, nervous or exhausted in middle-age may increase risk of dementia, study claims

Being stressed, nervous or exhausted in middle-age may increase risk of dementia, study claims Being stressed, nervous or exhausted in middle-age may increase the risk of dementia, a study suggests.

At a time when most people are trying to juggle work, family and social commitments, it's not unusual to suffer from mental distress.

But it could raise the risk of developing the brain disease by as much as 24 per cent, researchers have found. The Daily Mail

 

See also:

• Association Between Psychological Distress and Incident Dementia in a Population-Based Cohort in Finland (open access) JAMA Network Open