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Living longer can mean more dementia but there are ways to reduce the risk

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By LAURAN NEERGAARD

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Avoid oils from grains. That means anything fried. For that matter eating bentos and at restaurants

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He urges people to exercise, avoid obesity, and control blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol.

Good points, except that last one. I'm not convinced about cholesterol, despite the reported correlations.

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@Wick's pencil

For LDL-cholesterol, there is a plethora of data showing a link to dementia.

"Having high cholesterol in our 40s, 50s and 60s is associated with an increased risk of dementia." (https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/dementia-information/dementia-risk/cholesterol-and-dementia-risk/)

"In a population of initially-healthy older adults aged ≥75 years, high HDL-C levels were associated with increased risk of all-cause dementia." (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(23)00281-X/fulltext)

"High intake of dietary cholesterol was associated with a decreased risk of all-cause dementia and AD dementia." (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37874096/)

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Yes, association. But causation? I'm not convinced.

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Good Lord.

The answer is,if you really want to set records and outlive your peers, abstain from everything and focus purely on yourself.

If you want to consider your family, friends,and quality of life,do what you want,whetyou want,and b*gger the consequences.

As long as I don't become a burden upon others,I am content.

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Yes, association. But causation? I'm not convinced.

The specialist on human health are, if someone said that he is not convinced the moon is real, would that have importance?

The arrival of statins allowed for interventional research to prove reducing cholesterol comes with better cardiac health, that put the final nail on the coffin of the antiscientific denialists that like to pretend medical science is wrong for personal profit.

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Sorry, "cardiac health" is of course another thing affected by cholesterol, but as a reply in this topic "mental health" is the appropriate one.

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The arrival of statins allowed for interventional research to prove reducing cholesterol comes with better cardiac health

No, they showed that statins are effective at reducing LDL, but interestingly have little if any effect on cardiac health.

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VR

The arrival of statins allowed for interventional research to prove reducing cholesterol comes with better cardiac health, that put the final nail on the coffin of the antiscientific denialists that like to pretend medical science is wrong for personal profit.

Sure but dragged many into the private health /docs, YIKES you got a blockage, stent $$$, thanks R.B but what about dementia???

healthy, exercise, don't bang your heads, great advice until the inevitable A-disease becomes us animals. med science is making great advances in early recognition of Alz, Dem, C. but the unrelenting A disease will always prosper.

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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/how-statin-drugs-protect-the-heart

Did you read it?

Pretty useless. It just tells us that statins lower LDL, or "bad cholesterol".

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Denis Law a great Scottish footballer died at 86 from dementia which has become a major concern within the game because "heading the ball" over a playing life might be a cause of it.

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Also get a good night sleep as much as possible. There's also a link between sleep insufficiency and dementia.

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No, they showed that statins are effective at reducing LDL, but interestingly have little if any effect on cardiac health.

On the contrary, they have prove statins are effective protecting cardiac health and even that they appear very strongly to help also with mental decline.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/how-statin-drugs-protect-the-heart

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/statins-may-help-lower-dementia-risk

Sure but dragged many into the private health /docs

Fortunately most of the world have much more reasonable health services than the US, so there is no real downside to having better outcomes. A doctor making a profit from saving a life is much better than a grifter making a profit from misleading them into dying an early and preventable death.

Did you read it?

Pretty useless. It just tells us that statins lower LDL, or "bad cholesterol".

The well recognized institution makes an article about a scientific source that proves statins side effects are hugely outweighed by the benefits they give for the patients, that is not useless, it would indicate only that you have a systematic bias and would like to ignore what the institutions of science say. Do you have any example where an institution as respected contradicts this conclusion?

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