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Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by dgrin91 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:41AM (#35151342)
My conclusion is (1) god this map is terrible. My eyes, dear god. Why is the clear button blinking? But on a more serious note

(2) there isn't really a conclusion to be drawn from this map. Correlations are all over the place. Some western countries are high, but others are low. African countries are mostly high (because green is second highest for some reason). This map also does not correlate with age. I'm sure countries with a longer average lifespan have higher rates of Alzheimers/Dementia deaths. E.g. Russia has a lower average lifespan and a low rate of Alzheimers/Dementia deaths. That may be correlated.

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Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by pfortuny on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:25AM (#35152027)
No, I only wanted you to look at the mediterranean nations BUT on the table, not the map.

Clearly much lower than

UK, US, Finland.

That is enough for me.

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Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by dgrin91 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @12:14PM (#35170567)
Italy, Greece & Egype are low, but basically al others are high? Spain, France, Turkey, Libya, Morroco? I'm not really sure what is it that is enough for you.
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