Poor Sense of Smell May Signal Impending Dementia
Posted By RichC on October 3, 2017
A poor sense of smell may indicate an increased risk for dementia, a new study has found.
Researchers recruited 2,906 men and women ages 57 to 85, testing their ability to identify five odors — orange, leather, peppermint, rose and fish.
Five years later, 4.1 percent of them had dementia. Of all the factors the researchers measured — age, sex, race, ethnicity, education, other diseases the subjects may have had — only cognitive ability at the start of the study and poorer performance on the “smell test” were associated with an increased risk for dementia. The study is in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
More: Poor Sense of Smell May Signal Impending Dementia – The New York Times
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