alt Hacker NewsBut unmarried are less likely to have Alzheimer's or Lewy Body Dementia; specifically like I wrote initially
So either way, like how if ya live long enough some kind of cancer would get ya, so will mental illness
No beating physics
But unmarried are less likely to have Alzheimer's or Lewy Body Dementia; specifically like I wrote initially
So either way, like how if ya live long enough some kind of cancer would get ya, so will mental illness
No beating physics
Not less likely to _have_. Less likely to be _diagnosed_. It is unsurprisingly difficult to be diagnosed with progressive cognitive decline in most places regardless of source even if you have been referred once for MCI.
I think the easier way of looking at it is this: there is a Lancet commission that produces robust characterizations of the modifiable risk factors that lead to dementia. If you're in a marriage that promotes reducing those risk factors, you'll likely have a lower risk of dementia. Isolating one variate like this raises interesting questions, but isn't a "smoking gun'-- especially in this case since the authors themselves indicate this is a surprising result given other studies.
https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/dementia-risk