Knowledge check is a key component in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, and it is also often used to screen for other diseases like cancer and heart disease.
However, there is no clear way of telling if the knowledge check is working or not.
We looked at a large dataset of 10,000 patients to understand how the test works and what its effects are on the brain.
We found that people with low levels of knowledge check have higher risk of developing dementia.
The analysis found that those with lower levels of understanding check had a 30 per cent higher risk for developing dementia than those with high levels of knowing check.
We also found that patients with low knowledge check were more likely to develop dementia if they have had a stroke or other vascular condition.
We believe that this could be a result of the higher risk in people with lower level of understanding, which in turn could result in them having a stroke.
But we cannot say whether this could explain why low level of knowledge checks are associated with a higher risk.
We did not find evidence of the increased risk in those with no knowledge check.
In our next research, we will examine how knowledge checks influence cognition.
We are planning to do a follow-up study to investigate whether the effect of knowledge checking on cognition has an impact on cognitive decline.
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