Deans' stroke musings: higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease

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.

Sunday, July 10, 2022

higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease

The takeaway is to get vaccinated.

higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease

For several days, cases of Covid-19 have been on the rise in France. With in particular the appearance of new variants of Omicron, more contagious than the previous one and named BA.4 and BA.5. If today the short-term effects of the disease are better and better known, the long-term consequences remain uncertain and are revealed in dribs and drabs.

Recently, Chinese work had shown that among people severely affected by Covid-19, 15% had dementia and a quarter of mild cognitive impairment one year after leaving hospital. And in the long forms, many report memory and concentration problems.

Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Stroke

In a study presented at the 8th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, researchers from Rigshospitalet, one of Denmark’s leading hospitals, showed that Covid-related neuronal inflammation may contribute to accelerated development of neurodegenerative disorders.

Thus, out of nearly 1 million people tested for Covid-19, the authors observed that positive patients had a 3.5 times higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, 2.6 times Parkinson’s disease. and 2.7 times an ischemic stroke.

No more than the flu…

“We observed an increased risk of being diagnosed with neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular disorders in Covid-19 positive patients compared to negative patients,” explain the authors. But, in a reassuring way, they specify that most of these disorders do not seem to be more frequent than after a flu or another respiratory pathology.

These results should contribute to understanding the long-term effect of certain infections in the occurrence of neurodegenerative diseases and cerebrovascular accidents.

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