Figure 9

The responses of participants from different ethnic groups to the following statement: ‘A healthy lifestyle reduces the occurrence of dementia’. With respect to the effect of a healthy lifestyle on dementia, 42.8 percent of Chinese, 60.9 percent of Malaysians, 67.0 percent of Indians, 20.0 percent of Caucasians, and 83.3 percent of Pakistanis agreed that it reduces or prevents the occurrence of dementia. A higher percentage of Malaysians and Indians than Chinese thought that a healthy lifestyle reduces the occurrence of dementia. Of Caucasians, 60.0 percent disagreed with the proposition that a healthy lifestyle reduces or prevents dementia (which should be interpreted with caution, as the sample size is small).