ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - More than 55 million people in the world are living with dementia, a devastating disease that steals your ability to think, remember, and function. Doctors have been searching for links to dementia for years and they have new ones to report.

Every three seconds someone in the world develops dementia. Now, researchers are learning that changes in your eyes could predict brain decline down the road.

“A lot of people often refer to the eye as the window to the body, and what it really is, is that the eye is the window to the brain,” said Cecilia Lee, MD, MS, clinician-scientist at Washington University in St. Louis.

In one study, people with eye conditions like macular degeneration, retinopathy, and glaucoma, had a 40% higher risk of Alzheimer’s.

“The

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