Deans' stroke musings: Mid- to late- life body mass index and dementia risk: 38 years of follow-up of the Framingham 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.

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Mid- to late- life body mass index and dementia risk: 38 years of follow-up of the Framingham Study

You may have to double your dementia prevention protocols if this is you. I was never beyond a BMI of 25 until after my stroke at 50. And since my doctor did nothing that could get me back to all the activities I did to keep in shape I gained 30 pounds posts stroke.

Mid- to late- life body mass index and dementia risk: 38 years of follow-up of the Framingham Study

Li J, Joshi P, Fang T, et al.

American Journal of Epidemiology|April 14, 2021

Journal Summary

Given that growing evidence links body mass index (BMI) with poorer health, to explore this link, researchers analyzed 3,632 Framingham Offspring participants aged 20 to 60 years at their second health exam (1979-1982), with 190 cases of incident dementia detected by 2017. A higher risk of dementia that got lower after 70 years was observed in relation to each 1 kg/m ² increase in BMI at 40-49 years. A higher risk of dementia was noted in relation to obesity at 40-49 years. Overall, heterogeneity in the link between BMI and dementia risk was evident across the adult age range. The risk of dementia across an individual’s lifetime may be mediated by BMI monitoring at different age.

Journal Summary

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