A study presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference revealed that the risk that leads to Alzheimer's disease can be reduced with certain measures and that the number of cases contracting the disease can also be reduced.

The study reveals that there were 7 regular risk factors that led to Alzheimer’s. As per a source, around 3.6 million people in the world were suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia, which included 50,000 people from Canada. Every year, around 6 million people are detected with the disease, out of which 11,000 are from Canada.

The study was published in the journal Lancet Neurology, which observed the risks that led to the disease. The seven risks that led to the disease are less of educational activities, smoking, low physical activities, dejection, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.

As per Deborah Barnes, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and lead author of the study, eradicating these seven factors completely was not possible but a small amount of eradication was possible. “It gives us a little bit of hope about things we could do now about the epidemic that is coming our way”, said Dr. Barnes.