A new study from the University of Rotterdam (Netherlands) suggests that one in two women will develop dementia, Parkinson’s disease or will have a stroke During his life. Ditto for one in three men. For this study, published in the Jjournal of neurosurgery and psychiatrythe researchers monitored the health of more than 12,000 people between 1990 and 2016. All were aged 45 or older at the start of the study.
During this period, 1489 people suffered from dementia and 263 from Parkinson’s disease while 1285 had a stroke.
Furthermore, the study showed that women were almost twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with stroke and dementia in their lifetime.
“These findings reinforce the idea of prioritizing prevention, which could significantly reduce the burden of the three most common neurological diseases in the elderly and among the most feared.”said Silvan Licher, one of the study’s authors.
The study showed that the cases high blood pressuretroubles heart rateof high cholesterol and of Type 2 diabetes were more common in people with neurological disease.
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