Understanding Dementia \u2013 Detect Early, Prevent Effectively Dear Patients, Dementia begins gradually, often with physical changes long before memory problems arise. Research shows: sudden weight loss and rising HDL cholesterol levels can occur up to ten years before diagnosis. Sleep disorders or disturbed deep sleep also significantly increase the risk. Many risk factors  are modifiable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting-facts","category-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n