Potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia putting the evidence together: Total population attributable fraction
Gill Livingston, Jonathan D Huntley, Kathy Y Liu, Sergi Costafreda Gonzalez, Geir Selbaek, Suvarna Alladi, David Ames, Sube Banerjee, Alistair Burns, Carol Brayne, Nick C Fox, Cleusa P Ferri, Laura N Gitlin, Robert J Howard, Helen C Kales, Mika Kivimaki, Eric B Larson, Noeline Nakasujja, Kenneth Roc · 2025
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Gill Livingston and a large team of co-authors totaled the share of dementia that could in principle be prevented, in a 2025 paper. Many risk factors for dementia are changeable over a life: schooling, hearing, blood pressure, smoking, and more. Each factor's share has been estimated before, but adding them up fairly is tricky because they overlap in the same people.
The authors put the evidence together into one population attributable fraction, the share of cases tied to all the changeable factors combined. A single honest number helps governments weigh dementia prevention against other health spending. It also sets a ceiling: even perfect action on every factor cannot pass that share.
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| CREATOR | Gill Livingston, Jonathan D Huntley, Kathy Y Liu, Sergi Costafreda Gonzalez, Geir Selbaek, Suvarna Alladi, David Ames, Sube Banerjee, Alistair Burns, Carol Brayne, Nick C Fox, Cleusa P Ferri, Laura N Gitlin, Robert J Howard, Helen C Kales, Mika Kivimaki, Eric B Larson, Noeline Nakasujja, Kenneth Roc |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |