How do you say " protect me from dementia " in Hindi ? May learn that it deserves . A new study shows that bilingualism delays the cognitive decline and dementia.
The Web site, " Life Science " Scientific American and Indian researchers at the University of British " Edinburgh " and found that patients who know two languages were late injury dementia at a rate of 4.5 years compared with those who only know one language .
These included the results of Alzheimer's disease as well.
The researcher said study leader Thomas Buck The bilingual " can not cancel " the risk of dementia , " but it could significantly delay its onset ."
The study included 648 people in India the rate of age 66 years diagnosed with dementia , including Alzheimer's 240 injured and 189 injured vascular dementia and 116 infected with frontotemporal dementia , and the rest with a mixture of types of dementia .
Nearly 400 patients were to speak two or more languages , which is common in India and many were illiterate .
It turns out that those who speak more than one language at a time when dementia were beyond who speak one language .
Did not appear to see the benefit of more than two languages .
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