Differences in dementia risk between men and women may be attributable to their country’s economy and individual characteristics, according to findings of an international meta-analysis published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
Jessica Gong, MSc, a PhD student at the George Institute for Global Health at the University of New South Wales in Australia, and colleagues reported specifically that duration of education and alcohol use had stronger associations with dementia among men compared with women.
Gong and colleagues evaluated all-cause dementia risk among 29,850 participants from