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Tue 07 Jul 2010Depression can double the risk of dementia
DEPRESSION CAN double the risk of developing dementia, while high levels of vitamin E could help to significantly reduce the risks of acquiring it, according to research which was published in the United States and Sweden yesterday.
The US research on depression was described as “robust” by the UK Alzheimer’s Society, which said that it added “considerable weight to the accumulating evidence of a link between depression and dementia”.
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