A totally worthless writeup. No mention of the definition of low exercise so individuals could actually use this information. A great stroke association president would be reaming these people out for not providing anything useful.
http://dgnews.docguide.com/exercise-results-larger-brain-size-lowered-dementia-risk?
Using the landmark Framingham Heart Study to assess how physical
activity affects the size of the brain and a person’s risk for
developing dementia, researchers found an association between low
physical activity and a higher risk for dementia in older individuals.
The findings, published in the Journals of Gerontology Series A:
Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, suggest that regular physical
activity for older adults could lead to higher brain volumes and a
reduced risk for developing dementia.
Zaldy Tan, MD, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los
Angeles, California, and colleagues found that physical activity
particularly affected the size of the hippocampus.
In addition, the protective effect of regular physical activity
against dementia was strongest in people aged 75 years and older.
Though some previous studies have found an inverse relationship
between levels of physical activity and cognitive decline, dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease, others have failed to find such an association.
The Framingham study was begun in 1948 primarily as a way to trace
factors and characteristics leading to cardiovascular disease, but also
examining dementia and other physiological conditions.
For the current study, the UCLA researchers followed an older,
community-based cohort from the Framingham study for more than a decade
to examine the association between physical activity and the risk for
incident dementia and subclinical brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
markers of dementia.
The researchers assessed the physical activity indices for both the
original Framingham cohort and their offspring who were aged 60 years
and older. They examined the association between physical activity and
risk of any form of dementia (regardless of the cause) and Alzheimer’s
disease for 3,700 participants from both cohorts who were cognitively
intact. They also examined the association between physical activity and
brain MRI in about 2,000 participants from the offspring cohort.
Over a decade of follow-up, 236 participants developed dementia (188
Alzheimer’s dementia). Participants with the lowest levels of physical
activity had an increased risk of incident dementia compared with those
with higher levels of physical activity. Physical activity also related
to total brain and hippocampal volumes.
SOURCE: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences
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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.
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