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If you experience nightmares during middle age, you are about 4 times more likely to develop dementia as you age.  Neurologic researchers from Britain’s University of Birmingham studied 605 adults aged 44 to 57 years who were followed up for as long as 13 years with cognitive testing.

The analysis also showed that this tendency toward dementia was more prominent in men than in women.  The men having nightmare-disrupted sleep were nearly 5 times more likely to suffer eventual dementia while women with similar nighttime scares were only 41% more likely.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00370-4/fulltext

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