AF, hypertension, diabetes and smoking are all associated with CVD, so one
might expect them to be risk factors for *vascular* dementia: is there any
evidence - or reason - to suspect that they might be risk factors for
Alzheimer's? The Australian URL seems to use "dementia" and "Alzheimer's"
almost interchangeably - which I don't find helpful in this situation.
Assuming this list of risk factors is correct - and complete - as these
(apart from head injuries) are risk factors for CHD and have been being
fairly aggressively managed (under QOF ;-> ) and recorded since 2004, should
we be expecting to see a reduction in dementia by now?
Or is Public Health England just jumping on the latest political bandwagon?
Mary Hawking
Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4
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http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/freds-saying-you-just-dont
-get-it/
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Subject: Re: hat are the Lifestyle Risks for dementia?
Atrial fibrillation is another
Robert
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don't know about the actual evidence but the following have been identified
hypertension
diabetes
head injury
smoking
this is quite good
https://fightdementia.org.au/about-dementia-and-memory-loss/am-i-at-risk/ris
k-factors
On 28/10/2014 12:56 PM, Mary Hawking wrote:
> >From Simon Stevens' 5 year plan.
> Re Public Health (in Chapter 2)
> http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/5yfv-ch2/
> we reduce the risk of dementia through tackling lifestyle risks Could
> someone give me the link between lifestyle and dementia - what the
> risk factors are - and the evidence for stating that altering these
> lifestyle risks does affect the onset of dementia and if it does, what
sort?
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