A study in the May issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry has concluded that late-life depression is associated with an increased risk for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. After conducting meta-analysis on 23 existing studies that studied nearly 50,000 adults over several years, researchers concluded that adults with depression are more than twice as likely to develop vascular dementia and 65 percent more likely to get Alzheimer’s.

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