A study of nearly 1.4 million Danish individuals found a robust link between depression and dementia development later in life. The study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology, discovered that those who had depression were more than twice as likely to acquire dementia. This risk is maintained independent of diagnostic age, indicating that depression may really raise the chance of dementia. The study analyzed data from a Danish registry, comparing roughly 250,000 people diagnosed with depression against over 1.2 million people who were not. The findings showed that people who had depression were 2.4 times more likely to acquire dementia later in life than those who did not have depression. The study, however, could not find the particular processes behind this link, leaving.

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