Deans' stroke musings: Blood pressure and risk of dementia and its subtypes: A historical cohort study with long-term follow up in 2.6 million people

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.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Blood pressure and risk of dementia and its subtypes: A historical cohort study with long-term follow up in 2.6 million people

For laypeople this is completely not understanable

Blood pressure and risk of dementia and its subtypes: A historical cohort study with long-term follow up in 2.6 million people

European Journal of Neurology — Gregson J, et al. | June 27, 2019

Because blood pressure (BP) is thought to fall during the prodromal phase of dementia development, researchers studied correlations by categories of time since BP measurement (< 5 years, 5-10 years, > 10 years), and by dementia subtypes. To explore the connection between BP and physician-diagnosed dementia, Poisson regression models were used. The study sample consisted of 2,593,629 individuals from the United Kingdom Clinical Practice Research Database (aged ≥ 40 years) with a BP measurement between 1992 and 2011, and no prior record of dementia. Investigators found 65,618 cases of dementia during a median follow up of 8.2 years: 49,161 Alzheimer's, 13,816 vascular dementia, and 2,541 other subtypes. In the short-term, elevated BP is linked to a reduced risk of dementia, possibly due to reverse causation. BP's long-term dementia associations are less marked and vary by subtype of dementia.