In a novel study researchers have found that consumption of fruit and vegetables and boosting the levels of education can have theatrical impact on slashing the cases of dementia. Experts also suggest that by eliminating diabetes and depression would also decrease the number of people besieged by the disease.
Researchers have discovered numerous risk factors for the disease that include obesity, high blood pressure and high levels of cholesterol. The newest study over fifteen hundred people showed that increasing education led to drop in eighteen percent new cases of dementia over the period of seven years.
It is thought education makes the brain more flexible and improves its capability to counteract the symptoms of the disease. The findings of the study also showed that eradicating depression and diabetes and increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables escort to an anticipated twenty-one percent drop in recently diagnosed dementia sufferers.
In the second study in the BMJ, scrutiny of health records of more than 135,000 people in the UK found that people with dementia were three times more prone to die in the first year after diagnosis than those without the condition. That proposed that diagnoses were being made the later stages of the disease.
Healthy lifestyle is a key, effective avoidance of diabetes, depression and heart disease could possibly improve the lives of millions of people affected by this brutal condition and decrease the billions spent on dementia care each year, said Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer’s Society.
There is rising evidence that suggests a link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Discovering ways to prevent diabetes epidemic in its ways can only be seen as a good thing particularly as this could prevent millions of people developing the serious complications of the condition, which include heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness and amputation, said Dr Victoria King, head of research at Diabetes UK.