Cases of dementia in the U.S. are expected to steadily rise in the coming years, hitting 1 million annual cases by 2060.
Americans have a 42% risk of developing the cognitive disorder after age 55, according to the study published in Nature. Women also face an increased risk of developing dementia because they live longer.
“Their risk of getting dementia by the time their 95th birthday would arrive is higher because more of them will make it closer to their 95th birthday,” Dr. Josef Coresh, director of the Optimal Aging Institute at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and a leader of the study, said, The New York Times reports.
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For the study, researchers looked at three decades worth of data from 15,000 people in Maryland, Mississippi, Minnesota and North Carolina; 27% of the participants…
