Dementia Can Be Spotted 9 Years Before A Diagnosis—Here’s How

In the review, researchers analyzed data from the U.K. Biobank cohort study, which follows more than 500,000 individuals of the general population between the ages of 40 and 69, to look for early manifestations of neurodegenerative diseases—including Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and Lewy body dementia (aka dementia with Lewy bodies).