Dementia Rate Is Found to Drop Sharply, as Forecast

[hedgehog]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/health/study-finds-dip-in-dementia-rates.html?ref=health&_r=0

[Sunlei]

1. interesting, "in England and Wales have plummeted by 25 percent"

What products and chemicals are banned there and are not banned in the USA?

[Xipe Totec]

2. Maybe they just forgot to count 25% of the time...

[Mnemosyne]

4. ...

[Berlum]

5. GMO mutant crops ?

Hmmmm?

[Sunlei]

6. world eats basicly the same couple seed crops. More like insecticides,defolient,lifestock additives

The difference could be many of those chemicals are banned in non-usa countries.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Perhaps a better question would be

"What's the difference in access to affordable health care?"

[leftstreet]

12. +1

[hack89]

8. Education and overall health were determined to be the major factors.

dementia rates are directly related to levels of education and the general health of the population.

[hedgehog]

3. I have long wondered if survivors of the 1918 Flu epidemic were more likely

to develop dementia late in life - based on reading about the connection between the flu and a Parkinson's like syndrome.

(Awakenings - Oliver Sachs)

[hardcover]

10. I believe so.

Searching the connection between infection and mental illness I found many articles worth reading.

[mainer]

9. They need to separate out the different types of dementia to really assess this

Maybe overall dementia rates are down because strokes and heart disease are better controlled. But meanwhile, Alzheimer's rates could be unchanged or even increasing.

[hedgehog]

11. Good point - another consideration is that

the rise in diabetes rates may cause more strokes in the future