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TAIPEI, June 24 — New research has found that individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may have double the risk of developing dementia. Carried out by researchers at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital and the National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan, along with University of...

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Carried out by researchers at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital and the National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan, along with University of California San Francisco, USA, the new study looked at data gathered from 1,742 adults aged 45 and above living in Taiwan, who had been diagnosed with one of two types of IBD, ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.

The researchers also found that out of all the dementias, the risk for Alzheimer's disease was greatest, and those with IBD were six times as likely to develop Alzheimer's as were those without IBD.

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