Anaemia or low levels of red blood cells may increase the risk of dementia in elderly people a US study has said. ‘Anaemia is common in the elderly and occurs in up to 23 per cent of adults aged 65 and older’ Xinhua quoted study author Kristine Yaffe of the University of California San Francisco as saying. ‘The condition has also been linked in studies to an increased risk of early death.’ In the study researchers examined 2552 older adults between the ages of 70 and 79 for over 11 years. Of those 393 had anaemia at the start of
