Word: dementia
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Walking just two or three hours per week may lower women’s chances of developing dementia, researchers at Harvard found...
...National Institutes of Health website characterizes dementia as the “significant impairment” of memory, reasoning and judgment...
...related dementia is often preceded by small declines in cognitive function,” said Jennifer L. Weuve, a research fellow at the HSPH who conducted the study. “Memory, the ability to learn and the ability to focus—those are things that start to diminish in the early stages...
...said Francine Grodstein, the associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School who sponsored the study. “I think that’s the most important part...this is a way to reduce early stages of dementia development...
According to Abbot, men who were 71 to 93 years old and walked less than one-fourth of a mile per day were nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those who walked more than two miles...