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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Calcium supplementation and risk of dementia in women with cerebrovascular disease

Be careful out there.
http://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/medical-news-article/2016/08/22/cerebrovascular-disease-calcium-supplementation-dementia/6824758/?
Neurology®, 08/22/2016
This longitudinal population–based study coordinated to describe the association between calcium supplementation with the development of dementia in women with cerebrovascular disease after a 5–year follow–up. The study found that calcium supplementation may increase the risk of developing dementia in elderly women. These findings need to be confirmed, because this sample was relatively small and the study was observational.

Methods

  • The authors derived this sample from the Prospective Population Study of Women and H70 Birth Cohort Study in Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • They included 700 dementia–free women aged 70–92 years.
  • The women underwent comprehensive neuropsychiatric and somatic examinations, at baseline in 2000–2001, and at follow–up in 2005–2006.
  • They performed a CT scan in 447 participants at baseline.
  • They collected information on the use and dosage of calcium supplements, and diagnosed dementia according to DSM–III–R criteria.

Results

  • As compare to women not given supplementation (n = 602), the women who treated with calcium supplements (n = 98) were at a higher risk of developing dementia (odds ratio [OR] 2.10, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.01–4.37, p = 0.046) and the subtype stroke–related dementia (vascular dementia and mixed dementia) (OR 4.40, 95% CI 1.54–12.61, p = 0.006).
  • As per this stratified analyses, calcium supplementation was connected with the development of dementia in groups with a history of stroke (OR 6.77, 95% CI 1.36–33.75, p = 0.020) or presence of white matter lesions (OR 2.99, 95% CI 1.28–6.96, p = 0.011), but not in groups without these conditions.
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