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Even small amounts of alcohol consumption could put older adults at a higher risk of dementia.

That’s according to a recent study led by the University of Oxford in the U.K. — in collaboration with Yale University and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. — which analyzed data from more than 500,000 people drawn from the UK Biobank and the U.S. Million Veteran Program.

They also analyzed data from over 2.4 million participants across 45 studies to determine any link between the genetically predicted likelihood of alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder to dementia risk, according to an Oxford press release.

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