More Education Reduces Dementia Risk Decades Later

Keeping Teens In School Lowered Dementia Risk Decades Later

Among people born before the cutoff, those with high genetic risk were diagnosed at higher rates than those with low genetic risk.

Additional education protects people with high genetic risk of dementia

A law that required British teenagers to stay in school for an additional year had an unexpected consequence nearly 50 years later: fewer dementia diagnoses.

More education reduces dementia risk decades later

A law that required British teenagers to stay in school for an additional year had an unexpected consequence nearly 50 years later: fewer dementia diagnoses.