Deans' stroke musings: Association between waist circumference and dementia in older persons: A nationwide population-based study

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.

What this blog is for:

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, November 16, 2019

Association between waist circumference and dementia in older persons: A nationwide population-based study

You'll have to ask your doctor what this means. I couldn't decipher it. HR? I can't measure my waist circumference since my doctors did not get my left hand and arm fully recovered.

Association between waist circumference and dementia in older persons: A nationwide population-based study

Obesity — Cho GJ, Hwang SY, Lee KM, et al. | November 11, 2019

In this nationwide population-based study, researchers explored whether a positive association exists between waist circumference (WC) and dementia in older people. The study sample consisted of 872,082 participants (aged ≥ 65 years and older) from the Korean national health screening examination between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2009. Based on baseline BMI and WC categories, adjusted HRs and 95% CIs for dementia during follow-up from 2009 to 2015 were calculated. The HRs for dementia revealed a stepwise increase according to the increase in WC categories by 5 cm from 85 to 90 cm in men and from 80 to 85 cm in women until ≥ 110 cm after a multivariate adjustment that included BMI. Abdominal obesity, as measured by WC, was linked to significantly increased dementia risk after adjustment for general obesity.