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Journals of Gerontology: Series B

Very Early-Life Risk Factors for Developing Dementia: Evidence from Full Population Registers

Journal Article
Reference
Fischer, Martin, Martin Lövdén, Therese Nilsson and Nika Seblova (2023). “Very Early-Life Risk Factors for Developing Dementia: Evidence from Full Population Registers”. Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(12), 2131–2140. doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad142

Authors
Martin Fischer, Martin Lövdén, Therese Nilsson, Nika Seblova

We identify dementia risk factors using demographic data for Swedish cohorts 1932–1950. Factors are advanced maternal age, sibling spacing, and twin births. These factors increase dementia risk, especially twins. Improving early-life environment can reduce dementia and births with complications should be assisted to lower dementia cases.