Aggressively Reducing Alzheimer’s Risk Factors Could Mean 1.2 Million Fewer Cases In 2050

Aggressively reducing the prevalence of 10 common risk factors related to Alzheimer’s disease by 15% per decade could result in 1.2 million fewer cases of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States in 2050. These risk factors include:

Depression
Diabetes
Hearing loss
Mid-life-hypertension
Physical inactivity
Poor diet quality and obesity
Poor sleep quality and sleep disorders
Tobacco use
Traumatic brain injury
Unhealthy alcohol use

According to the most recent estimates by the Alzheimer’s Association, an estimated 6.2 million Americans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s in 2021. Due to population aging . . .