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One in three cases of dementia could be prevented if more people looked after their brain health throughout life, according to an international study in the Lancet.
It lists nine key risk factors including lack of education, hearing loss, smoking and physical inactivity.
The study is being presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in London.
By 2050, 131 million people could be living with dementia globally.
There are estimated to be 47 million people with the condition at the moment.
[...] These risk factors - which are described as potentially modifiable - add up to 35%. The other 65% of dementia risk is thought to be potentially non-modifiable.
Source: Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention and care
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @04:44PM (5 children)
Wow! Every box on the checklist!
Mid-life hearing loss - don't listen to hip hop music
Failing to complete secondary education - stay in school
Smoking - don't do drugs
Failing to seek early treatment for depression - don't be a loser
Physical inactivity - get a job
Social isolation - don't be a loner
High blood pressure - obey doctors orders
Obesity - don't drink soda
Type 2 diabetes - don't eat candy
(Score: 2) by ledow on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:15PM (4 children)
Better - and more accurately - summed up as: Everything in moderation.
As soon as you're eating/drinking/smoking something every day, or even every other day, chances are that you've got into a habit of doing so rather than are actually enjoying each instance.
Soda doesn't kill people. Drinking TONS of soda kills you. Don't drink tons, it's fine. Same for candy. Same - and I'm an absolute non-smoker - for smoking. Once you're into one EVERY day, it's going to start killing you.
Similarly, loud music is fine, just not all the time every day. A day in bed is fine, just not every day. A day on your own is fine, just not every day. A "down" day is fine. But when it's every day seek help.
The only one that doesn't conform is education but even that only refers to secondary, not anything higher. (And, gosh, who'd have thunk that being at least averagely-educated was good for you in the long-run?).
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:42PM (2 children)
Sorry, but even *one* event with really loud music has been shown to provoke measurable hearing loss. Not a huge loss, but a measurable loss. OTOH, I don't believe they did a follow-up study a couple of months later. They did, however, claim that hair cell loss in the inner ear was an irrecoverable injury. Perhaps they're wrong, but I wouldn't want to bet with my ears.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:10PM
Even one puff of a joint will trigger a psychotic episode and cause you to rape your sister. Weed is the gateway drug to incest.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @09:32PM
It depends, it's somewhat more complicated than that. My Dad was around a ton of explosions when he was in Vietnam and after he came home he was around constant banging and whirring from power tools and his hearing is surprisingly still great.
Obviously, that's not a good way of treating your ears if you want to hear well into old age, but some people do manage just fine for reasons that aren't really understood.
As a general rule, you want to keep the sudden loud noises to a minimum and keep the ambient noises to a reasonable level as well because both can cause hearing damage. The extreme loud sounds people realize is damaging their hearing, but the loud, but not as loud noises over a prolonged period of time are less obvious to cause damage.
Worst case scenario, you've avoided some loud noises that you might have been able to handle. Best case scenario, you avoid hearing damage. Personally, I wear ear protection whenever I'm on my motorcycle, even at lower speeds. That way, I'm likely to always be able to hear well.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 23 2017, @10:25PM
The key risk factor here, moreso than the others, is not getting off of one's ass and getting some goddamn exercise.
And why would anybody want to do that, when they could watch Anime and internet porn all day? The problem will likely get worse when VR-and-USB-Fleshlight porn takes off.
When I was growing up candy and McDonald's wasn't a problem because we had plenty of physical activity -- playing dangerous ball games during recess at school, riding bikes, staging WWF wrestling in our front yards (we had a big strong guy who made a pretty good Andre the Giant, and he would often agree to let us go 2 or 3-on-1 against him even though he still ended up winning).