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Treating eyesight issues could prevent one in five dementia cases, study finds

• nabla9 2y ago
  Similarly hearing loss can cause up to 8% of dementia cases. https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/dementia-risk https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/dementia-risk
• bell-cot 2y ago
  > One possibility, she said, was that a common mechanism might be behind both eye problems and dementia, while another was that problems with vision might mean people are less likely to engage in activities that protect against dementia, such as socialising. A third possibility, she said, was that vision loss might cause dementia because people who use their eyes less have degeneration and less blood flow to the brain. Painful memory: My mother's mind was nerfed, from being able to live with & care for my father (in their own house), to sharing a room with him in a 24x7 care facility, by a circulatory problem - which also blinded her in one eye. There were plenty of symptoms before the real damage occurred, and America's oh-so-great medical establishment burned through >$100K (inflation corrected) in fancy diagnostic tests...but failed to find the actual problem, until after it was too late. (Her underlying problem was well-known for a century, and is both easy to diagnose and trivial to keep in remission...IF you're a competent diagnostician, who gives a crap about your patients. But, sadly, there are no bragging rights, high-tech, nor big profits to be found in its diagnosis, nor treatment - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/giant-cell-arteritis/symptoms-causes/syc-20372758 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/giant-cell-ar... )