You're missing the whole fucking point. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO PREVENT VASCULAR DEMENTIA POST STROKE? This shows extreme laziness and NO STROKE LEADERSHIP. I would have all these stroke 'experts' fired. Once again describing a problem but offering NO useful solution.
Prevent Stroke to Prevent Dementia?
DUBAI,
United Arab Emirates — To reduce the incidence of dementia, societies
will need to reduce the incidence of strokes, a multinational panel of
experts concluded here at the XXIV World Congress of Neurology.
Because there are modifiable risk factors for stroke, it should be possible to lessen the occurrence and impact of dementia, they say.
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from stroke begin to increase in midlife for both women and men, followed approximately at ages 65 to 69 years by a rising trend in DALYs from Alzheimer's disease and other dementias for both sexes — but more so for men.
Given increasing populations, "the age-standardized rates of dementia have not changed even though… the absolute numbers of people with dementia has increased quite sharply," said William Carroll, MBBS, MD, president of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) and consultant neurologist at the University of Western Australia in Perth.
Estimates are that the number of people living with
dementias in the Americas in 2050 will increase by 248% (9 million
recently to 31 million people), in Africa by 300% (3 million to 12
million), in Europe by 90% (11 million to 21 million), and in Southeast
Asia by 226% (22 million to 72 million).
"The problem is about how countries and people and nations are going to manage this increased number of people suffering from dementia," he said, given that the human, financial, and societal burdens of dementia are already very large.
Because stroke is a risk factor for dementia, one logical approach to prevent dementia is to address hypertension, a major cause of stroke, as well as smoking, diabetes, and lifestyle. Climate change and air pollution have also become risk factors.
"If we reduce the rate of stroke, the argument goes, we may be able to reduce the face of dementia; if not stop it then at least reduce the severity of the dementia," Carroll predicted.
The Alzheimer's Disease International 2018 report
gives a figure of 50 million people worldwide living with dementia in
2018. A new case occurs every 3 seconds. By 2050 the prevalence is
expected to triple to 152 million people – two thirds of whom will live
in developing countries.
During the news conference, Najeeb Qadi, MD, of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, illustrated the link between stroke and dementia. He said the top three types of dementia are Alzheimer's disease (47%), mixed dementia (34%), and vascular dementia (9%).
The prevalence of vascular dementia doubles every 5 to 10 years after age 65, and it surpasses Alzheimer's disease after age 85 years. Qadi said dementia occurs in 20% to 30% of people within about 3 months of a stroke, with an additional 25% developing dementia over the next 3 years.
Because there are modifiable risk factors for stroke, it should be possible to lessen the occurrence and impact of dementia, they say.
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from stroke begin to increase in midlife for both women and men, followed approximately at ages 65 to 69 years by a rising trend in DALYs from Alzheimer's disease and other dementias for both sexes — but more so for men.
Given increasing populations, "the age-standardized rates of dementia have not changed even though… the absolute numbers of people with dementia has increased quite sharply," said William Carroll, MBBS, MD, president of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN) and consultant neurologist at the University of Western Australia in Perth.
"The problem is about how countries and people and nations are going to manage this increased number of people suffering from dementia," he said, given that the human, financial, and societal burdens of dementia are already very large.
Because stroke is a risk factor for dementia, one logical approach to prevent dementia is to address hypertension, a major cause of stroke, as well as smoking, diabetes, and lifestyle. Climate change and air pollution have also become risk factors.
"If we reduce the rate of stroke, the argument goes, we may be able to reduce the face of dementia; if not stop it then at least reduce the severity of the dementia," Carroll predicted.
During the news conference, Najeeb Qadi, MD, of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, illustrated the link between stroke and dementia. He said the top three types of dementia are Alzheimer's disease (47%), mixed dementia (34%), and vascular dementia (9%).
The prevalence of vascular dementia doubles every 5 to 10 years after age 65, and it surpasses Alzheimer's disease after age 85 years. Qadi said dementia occurs in 20% to 30% of people within about 3 months of a stroke, with an additional 25% developing dementia over the next 3 years.
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