Feeling constantly stressed means you are more likely to get dementia, new research has suggested.
More than 24,000 adults were asked how often they felt stressed or unable to cope with everything they had to do. Nearly a quarter reported high stress levels and this group were said to be 37 per cent more likely to develop dementia than those who did not suffer the same anxieties.
The study, led by the University of Alabama, involved American adults with an average age of 64 when they signed up. Over nearly two decades, they had annual memory assessments that look for signs of dementia. These tests of brain function, carried out by phone, involved asking people to remember an address, count backwards and state the
