It Turns Out UTIs Might Increase Your Dementia Risk

Genes, age, and cardiovascular health can all affect dementia risk. And some lifestyle choices might have an impact too: everything from reading and writing to switching to vegetable oils, and “speed of processing” brain games might reduce your likelihood of developing the condition. 

And new research has suggested that urinary tract infections (UTIs) might matter too.

Published in PLOS Medicine, its “results support the role of severe infections as independent risk factors for dementia”.