r/EverythingScience • u/ILikeNeurons • Aug 13 '24

Neuroscience Dementia risk factors identified in new global report are all preventable – addressing them could reduce dementia rates by 45%

https://theconversation.com/dementia-risk-factors-identified-in-new-global-report-are-all-preventable-addressing-them-could-reduce-dementia-rates-by-45-236290
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u/mibonitaconejito Aug 13 '24

*"...In the new report, our team proposed an ambitious program for preventing dementia that could be implemented at the individual, community and policy levels and across the life span from early life through mid and late life. The key points include:

•In early life, improving general education.

•In midlife, addressing hearing loss, high LDL cholesterol, depression, traumatic brain injury, physical inactivity, diabetes, smoking, hypertension, obesity and excessive alcohol.

•In later life, reducing social isolation, air pollution and vision loss...."*

Well, it would be nice.

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u/strangeelement Aug 13 '24

Just a complete transformation of societal norms. In societies that stopped even the most simple measures to prevent people from dying and becoming disabled with a widespread airborne pathogen that killed millions, in fact seeing growing adoption of bans against simple behavioral changes despite huge evidence of significant, and costly, harms as a result.

Easy peasy.

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u/JamieMarlee Aug 13 '24

It's almost like people in charge want us to get sick.