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  "id": 6491763,
  "title": "Dementia prevention can't rely on individual choices alone, new study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/dementia-prevention-cant-rely-on-individual-choices-alone-new-study",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-09T22:30:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
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    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-dementia-individual-choices.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Efforts to prevent dementia may be placing too much responsibility on people's choices while overlooking the wider social and environmental conditions that shape brain health, according to new Curtin University research published in The Lancet Public Health.",
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        "outlet": "ABC News AU",
        "title": "Dementia prevention too heavily focused on personal choices, study finds",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/dementia-prevention-too-heavily-focused-on-personal-choices-study",
        "published": "2026-09-10T01:16:13.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}