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Associations between dementia-related diseases. For clarity, the figure illustrates associations between 14 of the 29 dementia-related diseases identified in the study (all 29 diseases are shown in Fig 4 of the paper in PLOS Medicine). (Sipilä PN, et al., 2026, PLOS Medicine, CC-BY 4.0 via SWNS)

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