Heavy smoking in midlife may be associated with dementia in later years

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

Heavy smoking in middle age appears to be associated with more than double the risk for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia two decades later, according to a report posted online today that will be published in the February 28 print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

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