Some medications could have the unintended benefit of reducing dementia risk.That’s according to a recent study by the universities of Cambridge and Exeter, where researchers evaluated several existing drugs to see if they could do double-duty as dementia treatments.The team reviewed data from 14 prior studies, which included more than 130 million patients and one million dementia cases, according to a press release.They determined that several classes of prescription drugs were shown to affect dementia risk.DEMENTIA RISK COULD BE LOWERED BY DOING THIS FOR 5 MINUTES A DAY: STUDYThe findings were published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical