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People who are purposeful, self-disciplined and scrupulous about doing what they think is right appear less likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers performed neurological, cognitive and medical tests on about 1,000 healthy Catholic clergy and found their average level of conscientiousness the same as that in the general population.
After 12 years, 176 people had developed Alzheimer’s disease. Those who had the highest ratings of conscientiousness had an 89 percent lower risk of showing symptoms of the disease than those with the lowest scores.
The study, by the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
