• Researchers in China and the U.S. have found that chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) could be linked to a higher risk of brain aging and dementia.
• People with knee osteoarthritis were found to have more rapid brain aging than people without it.
• A genetic link between inflammation and brain function may point toward a way to predict cognitive decline, but further study is needed, experts say.

Dementia: Chronic musculoskeletal pain may speed up brain aging (medicalnewstoday.com)