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<p class="MsoNormal">WHO – UN World Health Organization - <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/05/1038441?utm_source=UN+News+-+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fac581c9fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_14_03_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fdbf1af606-fac581c9fa-105792637">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Merriweather;color:#333333">WHO Highlights Lifestyle Choices to Prevent Dementia, as Millions More Succumb Each Year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</b></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#666666;letter-spacing:.6pt">An elderly woman rides her bike in Croatia. New World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines stress the value of regular exercise to prevent the onset of dementia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">14 May 2019 -
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Key lifestyle choices such as getting regular exercise, not smoking or drinking too much, can reduce the risk of dementia and cognitive decline, the UN health agency said on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">In recommendations to counter an expected tripling in the number of people with the degenerative condition in the next 30 years, the World
Health Organization (</span><a href="http://www.who.int/en/" target="_blank" title="World Health Organization"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#00AEEF;text-decoration:none">WHO</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">)
guidelines are designed to help medical professionals and governments to develop national policies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Today, around 50 million people globally suffer from dementia and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#C00000">DEMENTIA FACT SHEET</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#C00000">
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<a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato">https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1C2022">People can reduce their risk of
</span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dementia?src=hash"><span class="prettylink-prefix"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#2B7BB9;text-decoration:none">#</span></span><span class="prettylink-value"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#2B7BB9;text-decoration:none">dementia</span></span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#1C2022">
by:<br>
-Getting regular exercise<br>
-Not smoking<br>
-Avoiding harmful use of alcohol<br>
-Controlling their weight<br>
-Eating a healthy diet<br>
-Maintaining healthy blood pressure, cholesterol & blood sugar levels</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">“We need to do everything we can to reduce our risk of dementia,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “The scientific
evidence gathered for these guidelines confirm what we have suspected for some time: that what is good for our heart, is also good for our brain.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">According to WHO’s new guidelines, other lifestyle choices that people can make to reduce the risk of dementia include controlling their
weight, eating healthily and maintaining healthy blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Last year, WHO provided support to countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Qatar, Slovenia and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive,
multi-sectoral public health response to dementia, it said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Reducing the risk of lifestyle choices linked to dementia is one of several areas of action included in WHO’s Global action plan for the
public health response to the illness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">Other areas include strengthening diagnosis, treatment and care, with a particular emphasis on online support for caregivers of people
with dementia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.25pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Lato;color:#666666">“Dementia carers are very often family members who need to make considerable adjustments to t lives to care for their loved ones,” said
Dr Dévora Kestel, Director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at WHO. “This is why WHO created iSupport…an online training programme providing carers of people with dementia with advice on overall management of care, dealing with behaviour
changes and how to look after their own health.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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