Does A Person's Education Level Reduce The Risk Of Alzheimer's? Boston University Study

Does an individual’s level of education reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s?

In the Framingham Heart Study results published last February in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers had closely tracked the health of more than 5,000 volunteers and found that the incidence of dementia declined about 20 percent per decade, starting in the 1970s, but only in people who had at least a high school education.

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