Dementia risk ‘could depend on ethnicity’

A person’s risk of developing dementia could depend on their ethnicity, a study has suggested.
According to researchers, certain ethnic groups are more susceptible to dementia risk factors like diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure.
More research on the potential prevention of dementia in individuals of varied ethnic backgrounds was demanded by experts.
From 1997 to 2018, a study lead by University College London's Naaheed Mukadam examined the link between dementia onset risk variables and English primary care records for 865,674 persons from a variety of ethnic backgrounds.
In the UK, dementia affects about 944,000 people, according to the NHS.
It is predicted that by 2030, there would be more than a million individuals affected by the illness.
The research team found 12.6% of the cohort developed dementia.
Some 16% were white, 8.6% were South Asian, 12.1% were black and 9.7% were from different ethnic groups.
They evaluated the patients' risk factors for dementia, which included high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, sleep disturbances, and dyslipidemia, an imbalance of lipids that can lead to heart disease.
Black people had a higher risk of dementia from high blood pressure than did white people, and South Asian people had a higher risk of dementia from low HDL cholesterol, diabetes, sleep disorders, and high blood pressure.