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Dementia cases to rise to over 7,000 by 2050 in Brunei: minister

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — According to findings from the Lancet’s Global Burden of Disease study in 2019, Brunei has 1,574 cases of dementia, with the figure expected to rise to 7,317 by 2050, Health Minister Haji Mohd Isham said.

Dementia is currently the seventh leading cause of death worldwide, he noted.

According to the Borneo Bulletin daily on Saturday, the health minister said demen