Severe infections may raise dementia risk, study finds (IMAGE)

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Severe infections may raise dementia risk, study finds

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Associations between dementia-related diseases. For clarity, the figure illustrates associations between 14 of the 29 dementia-related diseases identified in the study (all 29 diseases are shown in Fig 4 of the paper in PLOS Medicine).

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Sipilä PN, et al., 2026, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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