Dementia is a brain disease that affects around 55 million people worldwide and is characterized by the loss of cognitive functions like memory and reasoning.
and is characterized by the loss of cognitive functions like memory and reasoning.
But there are other, more noticeable changes to the body that correlate with dementia risk and can be picked up over a decade before diagnosis. Recent research has found thatmay be a warning sign of dementia that arises years before other symptoms of the disease. In the study, around 1,200 women in their 70s were tested for grip strength using a hand-held dynamometer and for mobility using a timed-up-and-go test where the person rises from a chair, walks 3 meters , turns around, and returns to sit in the chair.
The participants' health was tracked using linked health records for the next 14.5 years. In that time, nearly 17 percent of women had been hospitalized with dementia or had died due to a dementia-related cause.
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