Deans' stroke musings: Study Of 14,000 Nonagenarians Says Alcohol, Java Drinkers, Those Overweight In Their 70s Live Longer

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.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Study Of 14,000 Nonagenarians Says Alcohol, Java Drinkers, Those Overweight In Their 70s Live Longer

I'm sure your doctor will never tell you about this study and you didn't hear it from me. A little birdie told you.

Study Of 14,000 Nonagenarians Says Alcohol, Java Drinkers, Those Overweight In Their 70s Live Longer

“What allows people to live to age 90 and beyond?” Researchers at the University of California Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND) have been asking nonagenarians that very question for the last 15 years. And the results may surprise you.

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For more than 30 years, researchers at UCI MIND—the University’s center for aging and dementia research—have attempted to understand the causes leading to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia and Huntington’s disease. Also home to one of 30 NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers in the United States, UCI MIND researches genetic, clinical and lifestyle factors that promote successful brain aging.
In an ongoing study, researchers, including co-principal investigators, Claudia Kawas, MD and Maria Corrada, ScD, have studied more than 1,600 of the oldest-old, the fastest growing age group in the United States. They initiated the 90+ Study in 2003, and it remains one of the largest studies of the oldest-old in the world. “Because little is known about people who achieve this milestone,” say researchers, “the remarkable increase in the number of oldest-old presents a public health priority to promote the quality as well as the quantity of life.”

Initial participants in The 90+ Study were also once members of The Leisure World Cohort Study (LWCS), which was started in 1981. Researchers in this study mailed surveys to every resident of Leisure World, a large retirement community in Orange County, California (now incorporated as the city of Laguna Woods).
Examining the impact of physical activity on survival beyond age 75, researchers in the LWCS found that time spent being active, even ½ hour/day, resulted in significantly lower mortality risks compared with no time in physical activities and concluded that participation in leisure-time activities is an important health promoter in aging populations.