Sentences with phrase «dementia risk»

Although extensive research now suggests major head injury increases dementia risk in later life, scientists do not know the biological changes that cause this effect.

Large population - based studies like this are extremely useful for identifying factors linked with dementia risk, but they can't tell us what the root cause of an association might be.

Participants with onset at age 90 or older had an even lower dementia risk.

And as yet, no study has looked at the age related effect of obesity on dementia risk across the whole age range in the population of one country.

However, the research showed only a link between fitness and decreased dementia risk — it did not prove that one caused the other.

One study found that eating fish three times a week diminished dementia risk by 50 per cent.

The results were similar after researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect dementia risk or sleep, such as heart disease factors, depression symptoms and medication use.

The results of the study show a strong correlation between REM sleep and increased dementia risk.

That said, the authors stressed that the jury is still out on whether that improved word recall translates into a similar dip in dementia risk.

After age 85, controlling blood pressure does not have much effect on dementia risk.

The Alzheimer's Society discuss the connections between Mediterranean diets in reducing dementia risk.

Poor Sleep Is Associated with Higher Dementia Risk In Veterans; PTSD More Than Doubles That Risk

Although diet quality, smoking, age, as well as other factors were taken into account, preexisting conditions such as diabetes, which is a recognized dementia risk factor, and could have developed throughout the study couldn't be completely controlled for.

Policies which address determinants of health in earlier life stages and enhance cognitive reserve for populations may have the greatest long term impact on reduction of dementia risk at given ages in later life as well as on population health more generally.»

For now, measuring dementia risk with a simple blood drawremains in the realm of research.

«Mars - bound astronauts face chronic dementia risk from galactic cosmic ray exposure.»

With dementia prevalence projected to double over 20 years, from over 30 million people worldwide today to more than 65 million people in 2030 (Alzheimer's Disease International and World Health Organization, 2012), Dr. Anderson called it a «startling omission» that the field of neuroscience research has yet to investigate the capacity of volunteering to mitigate dementia risk or delay onset.

Recent studies in North America, the U.K. and Europe suggest that dementia risk among seniors in some high - income countries has dropped steadily over the past 25 years.

Crimmins, Brayne and Langa will discuss the research on falling dementia risk in a February 13 panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C..

«Dementia risk quadrupled in people with mild cognitive impairment.»

A Canadian review of 9,000 patients found those who had taken a benzodiazepine for three months or less had about the same dementia risk as those who had never taken one.

The downward trend has emerged despite something else the study shows: a rising tide of three factors that are thought to raise dementia risk by interfering with brain blood flow, namely diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity.

Langa, who is the Sturgis Professor of Internal Medicine and a member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, notes that the differences in dementia risk according to education level mark an important health disparity now, and likely into the future.

«Elderly may face increased dementia risk after a disaster.»

There was no difference in dementia risk for those on TZDs or insulin compared to those on sulfonylureas.

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The researchers also factored in other characteristics of the participants that have previously been correlated with dementia risk including physical activity, age, sex, level of education, obesity, low body mass index (BMI), and a history of high blood pressure, stroke, or diabetes.

In the United States, those who don't eat meat (including poultry and fish) appear to cut their risk of developing dementia in half, and the longer meat is avoided, the lower dementia risk appears to fall.

For those with the APOE e4 Alzheimer's gene, there was no difference in dementia risk between those with a sedentary lifestyle and those who exercised regularly.

The association between PM2.5 exposure and increased dementia risk suggests that the global burden of disease attributable to PM2.5 pollution has been underestimated, especially in regions with large populations exposed to high ambient PM2.5.

Spouses of people with incident dementia are at sixfold increased risk of developing dementia themselves

Can these diets reduce dementia risk, too?

Persons who had been drinking three to five cups of coffee a day, ever since they were middle - aged, lowered dementia risk by nearly 70 percent.

«As baby boomers reach the ages of highest dementia risk, the nation faces urgency in finding ways to improve long - term services and supports specifically for this condition.

Objective To investigate whether greater cardiovascular fitness in midlife is associated with decreased dementia risk in women followed up for 44 years.

«These studies from AAIC 2014 underscore the need to fund larger, longer - term studies in different and diverse populations to enable us to develop helpful «prescriptions» for lifestyle change — for example, which foods to eat and avoid, how much physical activity and what types — and to learn more specifically about how Alzheimer's and dementia risk factors change as we age,» Snyder added.

Once researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect dementia risk, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking, people with high levels of cynical distrust were three times more likely to develop dementia than people with low levels of cynicism.

But, says Langa, it is likely that the other ways that people challenge and use their brains throughout life — reading, social interactions, what occupation they have, and how long they work — may also have an impact on dementia risk in later life.

The traditional vascular risk factors (elevated blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia, obesity, diabetes and lack of exercise) have also been associated with dementia risk.

«Our results, based on in - depth interviews with seniors and their caregivers, add to a growing body of evidence that this decline in dementia risk is a real phenomenon, and that the expected future growth in the burden of dementia may not be as extensive as once thought,» says lead author Kenneth Langa, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the U-M Medical School, Institute for Social Research and School of Public Health, and a research investigator at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

If the amount by which blood pressure dropped closely paralleled the decrease in dementia risk, that would be powerful evidence of a beneficial link.

A group of researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, examined whether certain leisure activities known to reduce dementia risks could also reduce the risk of post-surgical delirium.

While hypertension during midlife is considered to increase risk for Alzheimer's and other dementia, there is emerging research evidence suggesting that its role in dementia risk may change over time, and may instead help protect against dementia in people age 90 and over, known as the «oldest old.»

Research reported at AAIC 2014 also showed that sleep problems — especially when combined with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-- may increase dementia risk in veterans.

«Sleep disturbances are common in dementia but little is known about the various stages of sleep and whether they play a role in dementia risk,» said study author Matthew P. Pase, PhD, of Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.

According to the researchers small vessel disease not only causes stroke but is also a major contributor to dementia risk, and is associated with gait problems and depression.

Although people with MCI have a higher dementia risk, very few actually develop dementia.