Oh great, I get to disagree with international stroke experts. I'd say prevention is not the choice that should be done, there are no protocols that would even come close to preventing stroke. They will recommend fucking lazy guidelines and then pat themselves on the back for such shit. My solution would be stopping the 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week. With that done you would save billions of neurons for each patient. Yes this is a BHAG(Big Hairy Audacious Goal) of 100% recovery for all survivors. LEADERS tackle such problems they don't crap out by the prevention route.
Avoid stroke, avert dementia: Western-led team calls for global action as link between two becomes clear
A Western University-led group of experts has a clear message for global leaders: prevent dementia by tackling stroke.
The team of international researchers, led by Western professor and internationally acclaimed neurologist Vladimir Hachinski, is calling on international medical bodies and national governments to develop dementia prevention programs and guidelines that address strokes.
In their latest article, published Thursday in the journal Alzheimer’s and Dementia, the authors write the scientific evidence for addressing some forms of dementia by taking action to prevent strokes is “uncontestable.”
“The time to act is now,” the researchers wrote in the article. “If we are to succeed, radical new approaches are needed, moving well beyond current paradigms.”(Yes, like 100% recovery protocols, not this prevention crapola.)
The connection between many dementia cases and heart or cardiovascular health can’t be understated, the article states. Stroke doubles the chance of developing dementia and, since strokes are more common than the degenerative brain condition, more than a third of dementia cases could be prevented by preventing stroke, the article says.
Dementia, a chronic and progressive brain condition associated with memory loss, personality changes and impaired cognition, affects about 50 million people around the world, including more than 400,000 seniors in Canada.
The number of people living with the degenerative condition is expected to rise 68 per cent over the next two decades. By 2031, the estimated annual health-care cost of caring for dementia patients in Canada will reach $16.6 billion, double the total from two decades earlier.
At a time when strokes and dementia were studied separately, researchers Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry was among the first to look at both conditions together and how they’re reflected in population data.
“Our group showed that even if a person had the warning signs of stroke, and went to a stroke prevention clinic, the chances of dying that year decreased by 26 per cent,” Hachinski said in a statement.
“We started to look at what was happening to the incidence of dementia as the rates of stroke decreased.”
Using 12 years of Ontario health data, his team discovered the stroke rate decreased by more than 32 per cent and dementia rate also decreased by seven per cent. Using the provincial study as a jumping-off point, Hachinski and his colleagues began to explore the dementia-stroke connection on an international level.
The article, Preventing Dementia by Preventing Stroke: The Berlin Manifesto, was drafted by 26 authors from the United States, Canada, India, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
It comes months after the World Health Organization released a new 77-page set of guidelines with advice on ways to stave off dementia. Strategies that promote cardiovascular and overall health, including getting regular exercise, eating healthy, not smoking, avoiding alcohol and maintaining a healthy weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, are among the new dementia prevention guidelines.
Hachinski, a member of the Order of Canada and former vice-president of the World Stroke Association, was among the international experts who contributed to and reviewed the World Health Organization recommendations.
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The team of international researchers, led by Western professor and internationally acclaimed neurologist Vladimir Hachinski, is calling on international medical bodies and national governments to develop dementia prevention programs and guidelines that address strokes.
In their latest article, published Thursday in the journal Alzheimer’s and Dementia, the authors write the scientific evidence for addressing some forms of dementia by taking action to prevent strokes is “uncontestable.”
“The time to act is now,” the researchers wrote in the article. “If we are to succeed, radical new approaches are needed, moving well beyond current paradigms.”(Yes, like 100% recovery protocols, not this prevention crapola.)
The connection between many dementia cases and heart or cardiovascular health can’t be understated, the article states. Stroke doubles the chance of developing dementia and, since strokes are more common than the degenerative brain condition, more than a third of dementia cases could be prevented by preventing stroke, the article says.
Dementia, a chronic and progressive brain condition associated with memory loss, personality changes and impaired cognition, affects about 50 million people around the world, including more than 400,000 seniors in Canada.
The number of people living with the degenerative condition is expected to rise 68 per cent over the next two decades. By 2031, the estimated annual health-care cost of caring for dementia patients in Canada will reach $16.6 billion, double the total from two decades earlier.
At a time when strokes and dementia were studied separately, researchers Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry was among the first to look at both conditions together and how they’re reflected in population data.
“Our group showed that even if a person had the warning signs of stroke, and went to a stroke prevention clinic, the chances of dying that year decreased by 26 per cent,” Hachinski said in a statement.
“We started to look at what was happening to the incidence of dementia as the rates of stroke decreased.”
Using 12 years of Ontario health data, his team discovered the stroke rate decreased by more than 32 per cent and dementia rate also decreased by seven per cent. Using the provincial study as a jumping-off point, Hachinski and his colleagues began to explore the dementia-stroke connection on an international level.
The article, Preventing Dementia by Preventing Stroke: The Berlin Manifesto, was drafted by 26 authors from the United States, Canada, India, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and Germany.
It comes months after the World Health Organization released a new 77-page set of guidelines with advice on ways to stave off dementia. Strategies that promote cardiovascular and overall health, including getting regular exercise, eating healthy, not smoking, avoiding alcohol and maintaining a healthy weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, are among the new dementia prevention guidelines.
Hachinski, a member of the Order of Canada and former vice-president of the World Stroke Association, was among the international experts who contributed to and reviewed the World Health Organization recommendations.
jbieman@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JenatLFPress
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