Vascular Dementia: A preventable cause of cognitive decline

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Is congitice decline unavaialble with age? The good news are that vascular dementia, the most common form of cognitive decline, is at least in part preventable; listen to this edition of #InsideCardiology and learn how to achieve that!

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@revpgesqredux 3 ай бұрын

Good timing. Have seen a spike in vascular dementia since 2021. I think the spike protein penetration of the blood vessel walls, like little pop rivets turning the walls into cobblestone instead of smooth is one of the problems that has accelerated in occurrence.... HBP and AFib and microthrombi and lesions and even prion like protein folding etc. Especially seeing a large number of what present as ministrokes, but do not meet the ministroke criteria... More like small regular strokes.

@sheilaallen2146 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Dr for the Information ❣️

@YvonneMiller-vx2po 4 ай бұрын

I agree! I couldn't hear either 😢

@cjfisher47 4 ай бұрын

Interesting to understand linkage between afib & high blood pressure with vascular dementia. And effectiveness of treating these conditions

@ThomasLuscher-kj7dk 4 ай бұрын

Yes, we can normalize blood pressure, but it reuires an optimal combination of drugs and the ambition to reach 130/80mmHg or even better less. Afib can be prevented with optimal BP control, avoiding obesity, modertae, but not exccessive csports and when it occurs treating it effectively

@WooWooGirl 3 ай бұрын

My mother checked all those "boxes." In her 60's she had several ischemic strokes. They stopped after about 3 months and never returned. 20 yrs later...she got A-Fib. The moment she was diagnosed with that...she began to Decline. She convinced herself that A-Fib meant "certain death". She was on it for two years before her death. By 85...she had FULL-BLOWN Vascular Dementia. I am not sure when she was given BP Medicine but likely many years ago...after the "mini-stroke period" I know she was taking it towards the end of her life. She was diagnosed with VD in 2021. She died in her sleep...in May 2023. It was incredibly fast. The doctors told us that because Vascular Dementia Plaques move more quickly to the brain through the blood vessels and arteries...it can END Someone much more quickly than Alzheimers does. I'll vouch for that reality. My father currently has Alzheimers. Both our parents had different forms of Dementia...at the same time. He was diagnosed 4 years ago but can still function some...but he is approaching Severe ALZ. However...he is still more functional than my mother with her VD was. Our father has no other health conditions...so he could live some more years still...while declining into a vegetative state. I consider that a Miserable FATE. Statistics say that 1 out of 3 people will get some form of cognitive decline...and not the OLD AGE kind. We have a family friend who was diagnosed with ALZ 15 yrs ago and she only stopped speaking...3 months ago. She had been semi-functional at HOME with ALZ for the first 10 yrs and in a Dementia Ward for the past 5 years. She went from being a World Traveler...to being in a non-communicative state 15 yrs later.. She is still breathing on her own and eating some...so she may stick around some more years. I cannot imagine struggling with any of these diseases for that many years. That is horrifying. Our SAVING...will be CRISPER TECHNOLOGY. Scientists say THAT will make these diseases "a thing of the past." It's gonna likely be too late for some of us...but at least we can be hopeful that our children and our descendants will NEVER deal with these horrors in their lifetimes. Cancers, MS, ALS, Quadriplegia, Paralysis, Parkinsons...all will become a part of our past...like Cholera, Polio, and other Life-Stealing Diseases ARE. To anyone watching this video...I hope none of you have to deal with any of these horrific diseases yourselves.

@eveoakley6270 3 ай бұрын

My dad passed away in May 2022 aged 88. He developed dementia in his late 70s, as did his older sister who also passed away after suffering complications from dementia. His younger sister has now been diagnosed with it. They all suffered atrial fibrillation and high blood pressure. His younger brother is now terrified that he will develop dementia because he also has problems with high blood pressure and diabetes, but not atrial fibrillation.

@MMimi-mg4qt 3 ай бұрын

The problem is the diet (diabetes) and over medication for the blood pressure which prevents enough blood to the brain.

@eveoakley6270 3 ай бұрын

@@MMimi-mg4qt exactly. Also, my dads father passed away in 1952 from a heart attack, aged only 44, so partly genetic too. My dads older brother, a very fit, muscular police officer during the 60s, 70s and 80s, also had heart problems, and died of a heart attack aged 79, but did not develop dementia, although he may have, had he lived as long as my dad. So that’s practically all his brothers and sisters have had similar health conditions. I think people who inherit health conditions like this may have to work a little harder to keep them at bay. My dad never smoked or drank alcohol, and his diet was pretty good. Hence, he lived a fairly healthy life until these conditions took over.

@MMimi-mg4qt 3 ай бұрын

@@eveoakley6270 In my opinion, and some more qualified researchers, most of the health problems are individual and ppl having the same bad habits get easily classified as "genetic"problems - excuse for not taking serious discipline in right food choices and healthy habits, treating cause instead of results, relying on very dangerous medication ( that can seriously damage one thing while "healing" other) instead living healthy.

@eveoakley6270 3 ай бұрын

@@MMimi-mg4qt I’m not saying it’s not down to lifestyle, but there are genetic tendencies too. If you have a family history of heart disease you are more likely to develop heart disease yourself. Different types of heart disease and related conditions, such as hypertension and high cholesterol, can run in families. It is very telling that my dads father died of a heart attack at the age of only 42, then all of his offspring get the same conditions. None of them were overweight and out of the five of them only one ever smoked. Out of them, five of their offspring have high high blood pressure, two of them since their twenties, one of them is now 60, also never smoked or ever been overweight. I’m all for being responsible for your own health, as I have always been. Now aged 62, specialised chem review status - all normal. That includes Lipids non-fasting/cholesterol, Thyroid function, Serum free T4 level, HBA1C (diabetes), Blood pressure, liver function, urea & electrolytes and blood oxygen saturation. However, I fainted last March due to being dehydrated through suffering a bout of Norovirus. I smashed my skull of a concrete floor and suffered a traumatic brain injury which caused a brain bleed. I have bounced back, but I’m now being pestered by my GP to take Statins. They can shove them because I fail to see if everything is normal and my brain bleed was caused by outside trauma through fainting I’m at a loss as to why I should take them.

@user-go8ey6gp8b 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, great information!

@patriciarussell1177 4 ай бұрын

here in America, so many people are on high blood pressure medicine at an early age and cholesterol medicine and blood thinners, so how can this be true other than those prescriptions do not work? Please answer this.

@ThomasLuscher-kj7dk 4 ай бұрын

Very simple: Most patients with high blood pressure are not consistently reaching normal values. They do not take their drugs or not regularly, their doctor thinks 150mmHg is good enough etc. - well documented in numerous studies.

@carolyncouch4094 4 ай бұрын

@@ThomasLuscher-kj7dkThat’s not very simple and it’s the easy way out. Always saying there are not enough meds or people don’t she it etc. This issue is anything but simple.

@MMimi-mg4qt 3 ай бұрын

Overmedicated for pressure while having diabetes - winning combination

@edie4321 2 ай бұрын

It's is the drugs causing the dementia.

@garylaturno4961 3 ай бұрын

Your focus is on treatment! Why not lifestyle changes to cure the issue?

@deborahcavel-greant6155 3 ай бұрын

Many people are not willing to change their habits! I saw both my brothers eat their way into the grave with morbid obesity, diabetes, and heart failure. Trying to get them to change their diets was like talking to a wall.

@waleyefish9026 3 ай бұрын

This is sadly 😥 TRUE.

@MMimi-mg4qt 3 ай бұрын

No money in it...as well as ppl believing only in poisonous pills

@ThomasLuscher-kj7dk 4 ай бұрын

Indeed, many are treated for high blood pressure, but - as documented in numerous studies - most of then do not consistently reach normal blood pressure due to non-compliance with treatment of because their doctor does not aim tto reach it. Then., many are recieving treatment to late.

@edie4321 2 ай бұрын

High Blood pressure is a scam. It is caused by the anxiety of waiting for the doctor.

@bluesky6985 4 ай бұрын

Emeramide chelates neurotoxins but the FDA doesn't want you to have it

@artemisjuno 4 ай бұрын

Such a shame. Couldn't hear a word.

@josephkalish3364 4 ай бұрын

I can hear the audio fine. I strongly suggest you get your hearing checked.

@revpgesqredux 3 ай бұрын

Hit replay after restarting phone computer or tablet

@lindaj5492 3 ай бұрын

Read the Description. With so many spelling and grammatical errors in that, I have absolutely no confidence in anything the video might say, so didn’t bother watching it.