Posted on 09/19/2022 7:57:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of dementia in those with type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to a study.
The study found that individuals with T2D and an unhealthy lifestyle were much more likely to develop dementia than people without T2D and a very healthy lifestyle.
However, a healthy lifestyle almost halved the likelihood of people with T2D developing dementia.
An unhealthy lifestyle and T2D are known to individually raise the risk of dementia. It hasn't, been clear, however, whether a healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk of dementia in those with T2D.
The 445,364 participants (54.6% female) had an average age of 55.6 years and were followed-up for a median of 9.1 years. All were free of dementia at the start of this period. 24,735 (5.5%) reported having T2D at the start of the study.
Participants filled in a questionnaire that covered television viewing time, sleep duration, physical activity, alcohol consumption, smoking status and dietary intake of processed and red meat, fruit and vegetables and oily fish. Their answers were used to divide them into three groups: most healthy, moderately healthy and least healthy.
Both T2D and an unhealthy lifestyle were associated with a higher risk of dementia. Those with T2D were 33% more likely to develop dementia than those without T2D.
An unhealthy lifestyle was even more strongly associated with dementia. The participants with the least healthy lifestyles were 65% more likely to develop dementia than those with the healthiest lifestyle.
Further analysis revealed that a healthy lifestyle appears to reduce risk of dementia in those with T2D.
Individuals with diabetes and the healthiest lifestyles were 45% less likely to develop dementia than those with diabetes and the unhealthiest lifestyles.
The researchers conclude that a healthy lifestyle can attenuate the effect of T2D on the risk of dementia.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
The way I read this study, your lifestyle is more important than diabetes you don’t get dementia in spite of dementia but due to your lifestyle choices
With the proper “lifestyle choices” Type 2 diabetes can usually be eliminated. I’ve heard dementia and similar afflictions referred to as Type 3 diabetes.
I enjoy my dementia.
It seems the world wants to instantiate my lifestyle. Die silently with dignity as you wish. But JR (prayers for your wife, JR) is hanging in there.
And should the Lord take me in so few years (100+ works for me) then He and I will wrassel to the end.
Going after us meat eaters!
If the whiskey don’t kill me, I’ll live ‘til I die.
Gaslighting.
C’mon, man. Having an off night?
This crap promulgates the falsehood that T2D is normal and irreversible.
Besides, the headline is genuinely an oxymoron.
More ‘studies’ from starving researchers typing up worthless papers to solicit public funding or - worse - operating within policy.
What is listed for healthy lifestyle? Avoiding one night sex?
Bkmk
Dr. Celis-Morales says: “Adhering to current dietary, physical activity and sleep recommendations is key to good health and it may contribute to a lower risk of dementia in people with diabetes.”
I have to trim the articles down to fit them into the excerpt limits.
Most importantly, you have done the editing well to keep the salient points available to the reader.
Moderating a ping list is often a thankless job, but more importantly, you provide people with the latest medical information.
You have provided us all with current medical practice and innovative "off label" information.
Many thanks for taking up the task, despite life's many interruptions ! Thank you !
Based on my own experience, a lifestyle that results in obesity and a Body mass index in excess of say 29 is likely to result in Diabetes type 2
I was probably both a bit slow and glad that even those not trying to put their diabetes into true remission could still greatly impact a condition I normally associate with a higher risk of dementia.
I throw metabolic syndrome, diabetes, most cardiovascular issues, extra fat, and brain disorders like dementia and Alzheimer’s all into a box of commonly-rooted disorders that I fervently believe can be greatly prevented by each of us, from diet, exercise, sleep, and supplements, when needed.
We need conservatives to live long, productive lives, and I had been noticing so many people had not been researching the latest medical insights, instead relying on specialists to know it all, when no specialist or general practitioner could possibly keep up on all the journal reading that affected all their patients.
Thankfully, many such beneficial opportunities don’t require much extra work or cost, which I hope brings hope and encouragement, followed by healthy action.
Now, about the hours the reviews and threads can take, I hope I can keep it up.
Thank you for the encouragement, sir
If they had a healthy lifestyle, they would not have type 2 diabetes.
Yes, cause and effect...too many studies confuse the two or those reading them do
Nailed it, plus one ‘tiny’ point:
So-called ‘doctors/specialists’ are subject to both professional persecution and sanction (loss of license) for deviating from AMA orthodoxy.
Hence sound advice is unlikely to be had from a board certified MD.
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