People who spend many years in mentally taxing jobs are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than are people who do more-routine work, a report in the Aug. 10 Neurology suggests.
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland identified 122 people with Alzheimer’s disease and 235 others without it.
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