Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I am going to start with the answer to the question of whether statins cause dementia and then provide the details backing up my answer. Statins do not cause dementia. But if you are someone who thinks that statins do cause dementia and you need to see the evidence to refute that claim, then read on. The answer is: No.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 23, 2024

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. Fitness & Dementia This relationship is also clearly evident when it comes to rates of dementia.

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Stroke Journal

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The primary outcome was incident dementia; secondary outcomes were incident cognitive impairment, total prevalence of cognitive impairment, and modified Rankin Scale score.RESULTS:A survival analysis (mean poststroke follow-up, 80.427 months) showed that the incidence of incident dementia was higher in the PET-positive patients (odds ratio, 9.6 [95%

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The 21-point Brain Care Score (BCS) is a novel tool designed to motivate individuals and care providers to take action to reduce the risk of stroke and dementia by motivating lifestyle changes (Fig 1).

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

3) Methods:We conducted a case-control study involving 415 patients who underwent a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a dementia protocol and cognitive assessments at the University Health Network, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Women's College Hospital in Toronto from 2014 to 2022.

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DAIC

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The most frequent cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, is known to independently increase the risk of dementia, said Massimo Barbagallo, M.D., It is known that regular coffee consumption benefits cognitive performance among healthy people. Swiss-AF is ongoing at 14 centers across all language regions in Switzerland.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These new guidelines provide necessary updates to both the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and the 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation. million.

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