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Largest study of its kind finds alcohol use biggest risk factor for dementia
Science Daily ^ | 20 February 2018

Posted on 02/21/2018 1:22:19 AM PST by zeestephen

Alcohol use disorders are the most important preventable risk factors for the onset of all types of dementia, especially early-onset dementia. This according to a nationwide observational study, published in The Lancet Public Health journal, of over one million adults diagnosed with dementia in France.

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KEYWORDS: alcohol; dementia; medical; mentalhealth; wod
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To: Bonemaker

lol

medicine isn’t advanced nearly enough for that


41 posted on 02/21/2018 5:04:31 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Agree the headline is very misleading for the reason you say.


42 posted on 02/21/2018 5:21:45 AM PST by babble-on
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To: zeestephen

Duh, just look at Hillary


43 posted on 02/21/2018 5:25:51 AM PST by okie 54
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To: C210N

Woman to Churchill at a dinner: “if you were my husband I would poison your drink.”

Churchill: “Madame if I were husband I would drink it.”


44 posted on 02/21/2018 5:27:35 AM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: dp0622

I’ve lost the cork from my lunch!


45 posted on 02/21/2018 5:35:59 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: kelly4c

In my unprofessional opinion it is actually stress that causes loss of memory. Stress is self-medicated and exacerbates the loss. Does he also have rheumatoid arthritis? The immune system attacks.


46 posted on 02/21/2018 5:44:27 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: zeestephen

I see early onset dementia in alcoholics. Starts in their fifties. Used to be called Wet-Brain.

Years of damaging brain with large and consistent amounts of alcohol leads to significant brain damage.


47 posted on 02/21/2018 5:49:43 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: kelly4c

There are other reasons for dementia besides alcohol.


48 posted on 02/21/2018 5:50:27 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Moonmad27

moderation is the key


49 posted on 02/21/2018 5:51:12 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: jazzlite

I would never advocate for the use of alcohol... It kills millions every year due to liver disease, mental problems, car accidents and violence caused by its use. And dementia that affects the young is a very serious problem... That being said, I know young people in their 60s and 50s who have been affected by dementia and they were not alcoholics and never drank alcohol.

This study indicates that 57% of the 57,000 respondents (interesting they come up with 57 twice) who are suffering from early onset dementia may have gotten it because they drank alcohol... 43% of the respondents apparently did not drink... So some of those 57% with early onset dementia would have gotten it regardless of their drinking. The study doesn’t seem to address that question... How many of those 57% would have gotten dementia even if they hadn’t had a drop of booze??? Add that number to the percentage who didn’t drink and it would likely be 50-50... or maybe even skewed to the point where drinking affected less than half of the respondents. So if you drink you may get dementia and if you don’t drink you may get dementia.

Like a great deal of these ‘studies’ that are reported in the media you need to take it with a massive grain of salt. Eating this or drinking that may lead to this... If you want to adjust your lifestyle every time one of these studies appears feel free to do so... Or you can just stop wasting your time worrying about the future and start living for today instead of for tomorrow.


50 posted on 02/21/2018 5:53:44 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Professional
Noah got drunk and he still lived to 950.

At least that's what he told his sons his age was--his birth certificate was lost in the flood.

51 posted on 02/21/2018 6:06:28 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: zeestephen

They’re just confusing dementia with a blackout.


52 posted on 02/21/2018 6:19:15 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: tinyowl

And just yesterday I read upon these very walls that alcohol, not exercise, is the secret to living past 90.


Coffee drinking and moderate alcohol use, being slightly overweight versus underweight...


53 posted on 02/21/2018 6:20:30 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Moonmad27
And another new study credits alcohol for long healthy life!

So.... combining the two, we get to be demented for a long time. Or is that fermented.

54 posted on 02/21/2018 6:21:52 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: zeestephen

My non-drinking grandmother was totally demented in her final years. My grandfather, who went to the pub every day, had no such impairment.


55 posted on 02/21/2018 6:27:08 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: zeestephen

People who drink alcohol every day are less likely to get dementia ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../dementia-risk-alcohol-drink-everyday-health-diet-san-die...

Aug 2, 2017 - Drinking alcohol three days a week ‘could reduce risk of diabetes’. Participants had their cognitive health assessed every four years over the course of the 29-year study, with a standard dementia screening test called the Mini Mental State Examination.

Again the secret is moderation in basically everything we do, eat or drink.


56 posted on 02/21/2018 6:33:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive of 63+ million Trump Deplorables. You will lose!)
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To: Loud Mime

My father had 1 or 2 Manhattan’s a day for all of his 93 years. yes, he had dementia, came in late 80’s........

But they say a key to living long is a glass or 2 of alcohol a day.....

Only God knows. Everything they are sure of today will be disproved in 5 years......


57 posted on 02/21/2018 6:52:21 AM PST by Arlis
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To: neverevergiveup

The problem with causation is that these so-called “smart people” are always looking for the singular cause and solution.

It’s a bit more complicated than that for those who seek to live out their life expectancy absent symptoms & conditions (aka “diseases”) which compromise quality of living or life expectancy.

The solution, however, is rather simple and I hope to publish my take on that this summer.


58 posted on 02/21/2018 6:53:12 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: jazzlite

Really well said. Thank you.


59 posted on 02/21/2018 7:01:39 AM PST by hawkaw
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To: RegulatorCountry

If real statistics say so...fine. I have no problem with that.

Studies have said eggs and pork are bad for you, then all of a sudden Eggs were ‘the indelible, edible egg’, and Pork was ‘the new white meat. Depends on study, and WHO did it!

Is there a link?

Thanks.


60 posted on 02/21/2018 7:05:56 AM PST by Ambrosia
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