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Cholesterol’s Star Role in Dementia Prevention: New Insights from the 2024 Lancet Dementia Report 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

The 2024 report from the Lancet Standing Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care brings promising developments for healthcare professionals and public health advocates. Key Takeaways: Up to 50% of all dementia cases could potentially be prevented or substantially delayed.

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Live well, think well: Research shows healthy habits tied to brain health

Science Daily - Heart Disease

In middle-aged people, having risk factors like blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol that are not well-controlled combined with not following certain healthy habits including exercise, diet and sleep, are linked to a higher risk of stroke, dementia or depression later in life, according to a new study.

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Beating the Odds: Inside the Tribe with a Near-Zero Rate of Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The real question is what the Tsimane tribe's risk factor profile looks like. Because if we can understand that, we can attempt to emulate it and also considerably delay the onset of cardiovascular disease and our risk of an early death as a consequence of it. For the Tsimane tribe, dementia is rarely, if ever, an issue.

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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Their diets are often poor. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. When broken down by disease category, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, stroke, osteoarthritis, hypertension and stroke, the pattern is the same.

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10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Heart Health

Dr. Paddy Barrett

What kind of diet should I eat? It usually takes many years of being exposed to an uncontrolled risk factor such as high blood pressure, high LDL cholesterol or diabetes. Even if they have controlled all of their known risk factors. Risk factors, in combination, cause an explosion in risk.

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Abstract 10: Enhanced Benefits of the Life's Essential 8 in APOE Epsilon 4 Carriers

Stroke Journal

Background:Adherence to the American Heart Association's Life’s Essential 8 (LE8) reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. While the epsilon (ε) 4 variants within theAPOEgene have been extensively investigated as a risk factor for dementia and stroke,APOEε4 carriers have not been thoroughly studied as an at-risk population.

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Highlights from The National Lipid Association (NLA) Scientific Sessions 

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

He highlighted that cardiovascular health is essential for cognitive health, noting the common occurrence of vascular dementia. ” She emphasized the importance of measuring Lp(a) levels and addressing them by optimizing risk factor reduction. She noted that certain risk factors for heart disease change during this time.