Alzheimer’s Plaques Found in Middle-Aged People With Brain Injuries

Well shit, what stroke protocol is your doctor following to make sure this is not a result after your stroke? ANYTHING AT ALL?
Has your doctor/hospital done anything since these earlier research results?
Your 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study?  May 2012.
Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.
A 20% chance in this research.   July 2013.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-01-scientists-heart-disease-clues-alzheimer.html

You're screwed because your doctor has done nothing. Ask and you shall find out how pathetic your doctor and hospital are. Maybe you need your brain garbage disposal system jump started.

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People with brain injuries following head trauma may have build-up of the plaques related to Alzheimer’s disease in their brains, according to a study published in the February 3, 2016, online issue of Neurology.
A corresponding editorial states that over the past decade the rate of emergency department visits related to traumatic brain injury (TBI) has increased by 70%. The editorial also says an estimated 3 to 5 million Americans live with a TBI-related disability.
“The study is small and the findings preliminary; however, we did find an increased build-up of amyloid plaques in people who had previously sustained a traumatic brain injury,” said David Sharp, MD, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
“The areas of the brain affected by plaques overlapped those areas affected in Alzheimer’s disease, but other areas were involved,” he said. “People after a head injury are more likely to develop dementia, but it isn’t clear why. Our findings suggest TBI leads to the development of the plaques which are a well-known feature of Alzheimer’s disease.”
For the study, 9 people with an average age of 44 years who had a single moderate to severe TBI had positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans. The PET scans used a marker that detects plaques in the brain. The MRI scans used diffusion tensor imaging to detect damage to brain cells that occurs after TBI.
The brain injuries occurred between 11 months and up to 17 years before the start of the study. The participants were compared with 10 people with Alzheimer’s disease and 9 healthy participants.
Both the people with brain injuries and the people with Alzheimer’s disease had plaques in the posterior cingulate cortex, which is affected early in Alzheimer’s, but only those with brain injuries had plaques in the cerebellum. The researchers also found that plaques were increased in patients with more damage to the brain’s white matter.
“It suggests that plaques are triggered by a different mechanism after a traumatic brain injury,” said Dr. Sharp. “The damage to the brain’s white matter at the time of the injury may act as a trigger for plaque production.”
“If a link between brain injury and later Alzheimer’s disease is confirmed in larger studies, neurologists may be able to find prevention and treatment strategies to stave off the disease earlier,” said Dr. Sharp.
SOURCE: American Academy of Neurology