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Incidence of Dementia Over Three Decades in the Framingham Heart Study (2016)
- everybodyknows 8y agoTitle edit: 2016
- cm2187 8y agoThis article points in the opposite direction but it’s worth keeping in mind that we will see other age related diseases on the rise, just because we get better are curing other diseases. We will all die of something and if we get better at treating cancer, then some other disease will mechanically increase. That’s why I would also take with a pinch of salt studies that show a modest increase in a particular disease and try to pin that on a particular technology or food.
- dilap 8y agolife expectancy in the us is droppping
- ztjio 8y agoThis is due to suicide and drug overdose, nothing that would be relevant to this discussion directly.
- yayana 8y agoSuicide could account for a lower prevalence of dementia.
- Nasrudith 8y agoIf it is biased to those who are suffering already or would suffer from it. Theoretically if depression earlier in life protected against dementia (not likely at all but bear with me) it would actually raise the rates. I wonder what the actual correlation is however even keeping in mind spuriousness.
- ataturk 8y agoIf you believe bs news, but the truth is that one particularly easy to avoid situation is behind that change in the "average." You can make statistics say whatever you please.
- Angostura 8y agohttps://www.theonion.com/world-death-rate-holding-steady-at-100-percent-1819564171 https://www.theonion.com/world-death-rate-holding-steady-at-...
- Latteland 8y agoThe frozen people might not be dead. They are just sleeping, right?
- m-i-l 8y agoIf I've read it correctly the article is saying the percentage of instances per age group have decreased over time, but to your point if there are more people reaching those age groups the total number of cases may increase.
- mrfusion 8y agoCould this be related to phasing out lead in gasoline in the 80s? Interestingly each epoch they look at would have had less exposure than the previous and dementia is going down in each epoch.