UCI study:

Dementia is more likely to affect women older than 90 than men, a new UCI study says.

Out of 911 persons studied, 45% of the women were found to have dementia while only 28% of the men did, according to the study which was published Wednesday in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

The study was conducted in Laguna Woods and found that chances of dementia doubled every five years for women after reaching the age of 90, while the same wasn’t true with men.

Women with higher levels of education were as much as 45% less likely to have dementia when compared to women with less education, according to the study.

Dementia is a progressive brain dysfunction that causes memory loss, behavioral changes and disorientation.

— Daniel Tedford