Posted on 03/04/2020 10:44:39 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s disease jumped 200% among commercially insured Americans between the ages of 30 and 64 over a recent five-year period, a new analysis of Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurer claims shows.
The report, the latest from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, shows 131,000 people between the ages of “30 and 64 were diagnosed with either form of dementia” in 2017. The average age of someone “with either condition is 49 and women are disproportionately impacted than men,” the report, which is the latest in the trade group’s “The Health of America” series, shows.
In 2017, there were 12.6 diagnoses per 10,000 adults of either early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s disease for commercially insured adults aged 30 to 64, the report said. That compares to 4.2 diagnoses per 10,000 adults of early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s disease combined for the same 30 to 64 age group in 2013.
“The increase in early-onset dementia and Alzheimer’s diagnoses among a generation who typically wouldn’t expect to encounter these conditions for several decades is concerning, especially since there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Vincent Nelson, vice president of medical affairs for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, which gathered data for the report from a database of medical claims of more than 48 million commercially insured Blue Cross customers.
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‘Weed’, anti-anxiety, AND antidepressants.
We don’t know enough at this stage of our development to be mucking with brain chemistry.
Obesity and fatty foods is the major culprit.
No logical reason for that-the only possible payout is monthly disability income-aka SSDI-and it isn’t enough to make filing such a claim worthwhile-maybe the effects of all the drugs people take at the drop of a hat, or the chemicals in the processed food people stuff themselves with, etc are really not so harmless after all...
I have a disorder that causes me to faint. When it was first diagnosed they put me on a drug. Don’t remember the drug.
It really altered my brain.
I was a fast and accurate typer on a computer keyboard.
As I was writing a paper weird things kept showing up on the screen. There was a big disconnect between my brain and my fingers.
It scared me so much I immediately stopped taking the drug.
Glad to see I am not the only one that interpreted his post this way.
That isn’t what he meant.
I wish I’d saved it but I saw a study once where a university took elderly people with dementia and alzheimers. They got these people off of most of the drugs the doctors had them taking. Over half of the patients regained their sanity. Over-medication is a bigger factor than Drs want to admit.
My mother-in-law started to go nuts a few years back. My wife found that the DR had put her on paxil. My wife got her off it and voila!. Back to normal.
You are not the only one on the thread to mention that.
Not surprising IMHO.
“I’ve often wondered about statins since the brain is full of cholesterol.”
Absolutely! It happened to me. I couldn’t put a sentence together, or get the words out of my mouth. A week after I stopped taking the statins I was back to normal.
The insulation covering the wiring in your brain is cholesterol. When the statins destroy that, the signals in your brain don’t get where they’re supposed to go.
Are Democrats disproportionately impacted too?
As a workers comp case manager, I’ve had so many clients try to fake so many disabilities that I’m overly cautious of any client who wants SSDI and does not want to return to work...
I believe that all the drugs-especially the psychotropics handed out to anyone who feels anxious, or sheds a tear once a month, etc-and the frakenfood that has caused an obesity epidemic in even the very young are a huge factor in a lot of the conditions suddenly off the charts...
Oops-”frankenfood”-is the frakin’ problem...
Ahhh..THAT is why that was your first intrepretation of what he said.
In my case, perhaps a version of glass half empty philosphy and I thought first of the scammers.
Remember how, in the age of Clinton, there were endless articles about how lying greased the interactions of society?
Those articles sort of worked back then, who knows, it may work again.
Biden is human, just like grandpa....
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There is an article on Fox Business today saying that a significant cause of dementia among old people is the interaction of drugs that are mostly unknown.
The author recommends a complete review of all drugs and thorough examination of known side effects
What seems to be dementia can be a mind clearing if drugs are changed or eliminated
My Mom was taking pill after pill, and begging the doctor for more. I’ve no idea what all she was on (1000 miles away), but eventually when she went into assisted living, my Aunt & Uncle took her to a different doctor and got her off all that junk.
It was amazing. After 20 years of being a zombie, she became a human being. For the last year or so of her life. (sigh)
Which is why I hate drugs and hope to have as little to do with them as possible.
My sister-in-law has experienced this at least two times. She is on multiple medications for various conditions, and her husband monitored her dosage until he passed away. Despite his best efforts, there were a pair of episodes when her cognitive abilities began to decline and she even developed tremors. One doctor diagnosed Parkinson’s; another said she had dementia, a third decided her medications might be out of whack and did a complete review. He reduced dosage on a couple of them and eliminated a third, and within a few days, the tremors stopped, the fog lifted and her cognitive skills returned to normal.
Many older Americans see multiple specialists for various conditions. Even with electronic medical charts and screening for possible interactions, there are still countless episodes of elderly patients who wind up taking too much medication, not enough, or there’s an interaction the doctors and pharmacist missed. Since her husband’s death, my sister-in-law has been relying on her son and daughter to help with her meds. So far, there haven’t been any adverse consequences.
This is where Intermittent Fasting (IF) can help in order to induce autophagy.
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