Deans' stroke musings: This Cause Of Dementia Linked To 66% Higher Risk

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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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, December 30, 2017

This Cause Of Dementia Linked To 66% Higher Risk

Well I hit the overweight category for a couple years post-stroke until I could regularly get in 10,000 steps a day. Ask your doctor for a weight loss diet protocol. Ask your doctor if this is more likely a cause of dementia than your stroke.
1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study? May 2012.
2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.
3. A 20% chance in this research. July 2013.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2017/12/dementia-cause.php?omhide=true

People with a higher body-mass index are more likely to develop dementia, new research finds. Being classed as overweight rather than in the normal range increases the dementia risk by 16-33%. For a person who is 170cm (5’7″), for example, carrying an extra 14.5kg (32lbs) over the ideal weight, will increase their dementia risk between 16 and 33%. Being classed as obese (an additional 14.5kg) adds the same amount of dementia risk again, making a total of up to 66%. The study analysed data from 1.3 million adults in the US and Europe.

Professor Mika Kivimäki, the study’s first author, said:

“The BMI-dementia association observed in longitudinal population studies, such as ours, is actually attributable to two processes. One is an adverse effect of excess body fat on dementia risk. The other is weight loss due to pre-clinical dementia.

For this reason, people who develop dementia may have a higher-than-average body mass index some 20 years before dementia onset, but close to overt dementia have a lower BMI than those who remain healthy. The new study confirms both the adverse effect of obesity as well as weight loss caused by metabolic changes during the pre-dementia stage.”

Previous studies have given conflicting messages about the effect of obesity on dementia.

Some have suggested more weight may have a protective effect, others, like this one, the reverse.