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The score, based on age, education, heart disease, metabolic events, and other factors, was a significant predictor of dementia risk over a 10-year period (C-statistic 0.736), Rachel Whitmer, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif., and colleagues reported online in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
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