Danger Components for Dementia Might Change With Age

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FRIDAY, Might 20, 2022 (HealthDay Information)

Dementia danger components seem to shift with age, and specialists say figuring out that might assist folks make life-style adjustments to scale back their probabilities of growing the illness.

“Dementia is a sophisticated illness and danger prediction scores must be tailor-made to the person,” mentioned Emer McGrath of the Nationwide College of Eire Galway, lead writer of a new study. “Our findings assist the usage of age-specific danger prediction scores for dementia as a substitute of a one-size-fits-all method.”

For the examine, the researchers analyzed information collected from practically 4,900 People enrolled within the Framingham Heart Study. The contributors have been adopted from roughly age 55 to 80, and have been tracked from age 65 to see who developed dementia.

Individuals who had diabetes at age 55 have been over 4 occasions extra prone to develop dementia afterward than these with out diabetes at that age.

The investigators additionally discovered that individuals with high blood pressure at 55 have been extra prone to develop dementia, and the chance rose about 12% with each 10-point enhance in systolic blood pressure, the highest quantity within the studying.

Individuals who had heart disease, however not stroke, at age 65 have been practically twice as prone to develop dementia, the findings confirmed.

These of their 70s who had diabetes and stroke have been extra prone to develop dementia, and 80-year-olds who had both a stroke or diabetes have been between 40% and 60% extra doubtless to take action, based on the report printed on-line Might 18 within the journal Neurology.

“These findings will help us to extra precisely predict an individual’s future danger of growing dementia and make individualized suggestions on life-style adjustments and danger issue management to assist reduce their risk of dementia afterward,” McGrath mentioned in a journal information launch.

The examine authors famous that many of the examine contributors have been white, so the findings could not apply to these in different racial and/or ethnic teams.

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The U.S. Nationwide Institute on Aging has extra about dementia.

SOURCE: Neurology, information launch, Might 18, 2022

By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter