Financial scam victims have higher risk of Alzheimer's

📆 4/16/2019 1:11 AM
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(Reuters Health) - Older adults who are victims of financial scams may be more likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease than elderly ...

- Older adults who are victims of financial scams may be more likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease than elderly people who don't get tricked by scammers, a small U.S. study suggests.

Low scam awareness was associated with a 56 percent higher risk of Alzheimer's and a 47 percent higher risk of mild cognitive impairment, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how scam awareness might directly influence the risk of developing Alzheimer's or dementia.

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