08-22-2024, 09:35 PM
From Epoch Times: Nearly Half of Dementia Cases Could Be Prevented or Delayed: Lancet Commission
Based on The Lancet: Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission
The thrust of the 'news' aspect of this is that we had identified 12 risk factors allowing us at least a chance to proactively deal with dementia cases... but now with the addition of two newly identified factors, we could hope for less severe consequence to as much as nearly half of them.
But a new report published by the Lancet Commission on dementia estimates that almost half of the cases of the neurological disease can likely be avoided or delayed. Twenty-seven of the world’s leading dementia experts co-authored the report.
These experts point to 12 existing risk factors and two new ones that could prevent or delay dementia.
The two new risk factors included are vision loss and having high low-density lipoprotein or LDL cholesterol.
The previous 12 risk factors include less education, hearing loss, depression, traumatic brain injury, physical inactivity, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, social isolation, and air pollution.
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We have summarised the new research since the 2020 report of the Lancet Commission on dementia, prioritising systematic reviews and meta-analyses and triangulating findings from different studies showing how cognitive and physical reserve develop across the life course and how reducing vascular damage (eg, by reducing smoking and treating high blood pressure) is likely to have contributed to a reduction in age-related dementia incidence. Evidence is increasing and is now stronger than before that tackling the many risk factors for dementia that we modelled previously (ie, less education, hearing loss, hypertension, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, excessive alcohol consumption [ie, >21 UK units, equivalent to >12 US units], traumatic brain injury [TBI], air pollution, and social isolation) reduces the risk of developing dementia. In this report, we add the new compelling evidence that untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol are risk factors for dementia.
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Based on The Lancet: Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission
The thrust of the 'news' aspect of this is that we had identified 12 risk factors allowing us at least a chance to proactively deal with dementia cases... but now with the addition of two newly identified factors, we could hope for less severe consequence to as much as nearly half of them.
But a new report published by the Lancet Commission on dementia estimates that almost half of the cases of the neurological disease can likely be avoided or delayed. Twenty-seven of the world’s leading dementia experts co-authored the report.
These experts point to 12 existing risk factors and two new ones that could prevent or delay dementia.
The two new risk factors included are vision loss and having high low-density lipoprotein or LDL cholesterol.
The previous 12 risk factors include less education, hearing loss, depression, traumatic brain injury, physical inactivity, smoking, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, social isolation, and air pollution.
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We have summarised the new research since the 2020 report of the Lancet Commission on dementia, prioritising systematic reviews and meta-analyses and triangulating findings from different studies showing how cognitive and physical reserve develop across the life course and how reducing vascular damage (eg, by reducing smoking and treating high blood pressure) is likely to have contributed to a reduction in age-related dementia incidence. Evidence is increasing and is now stronger than before that tackling the many risk factors for dementia that we modelled previously (ie, less education, hearing loss, hypertension, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, excessive alcohol consumption [ie, >21 UK units, equivalent to >12 US units], traumatic brain injury [TBI], air pollution, and social isolation) reduces the risk of developing dementia. In this report, we add the new compelling evidence that untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol are risk factors for dementia.
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