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ArticleCerebral circulation - cognition and behavior2024

The iceberg of dementia risk: empirical and conceptual arguments in favor of structural interventions for brain health.

Timothy Daly

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Article in Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Tackling social determinants of dementia will require qualitative research with the public and professionals.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  7. Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Japan: Epidemiological trends, regional disparities, and future projections.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  11. Editorial.Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior · 2024
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  12. Individuals with dementia and populations with dementia.Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior · 2024
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Timothy DalyBioethics Program, FLACSO Argentina, Tucumán 1966, C1050 AAN, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While pharmacological interventions for dementia struggle to demonstrate improved outcomes for patients and at-risk populations, non-pharmacological lifestyle interventions have been proposed as a tool to achieve dementia risk reduction. In this review, it is argued that lifestyle modification alone is a surface-level intervention from the point of view of fair and far-reaching dementia prevention. Below the tip of this "iceberg of dementia risk," there are living conditions and social structures that represent deeper contributions to risk in the population. It is argued that alongside lifestyle modification, activist research and structural interventions are needed to make our society fairer and more dementia-resilient.

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Brain health justiceDementia preventionPublic healthStructural interventions

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PMID39071741
PMCPMC11273093

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