Re: Re: Calculate your Dementia Risk

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Well, that thought occurred to me a 70 yo with a 1.9% risk for the next 20 yrs just doesn't seem appropriate. But the data is not for the 70+ people starting at 70. I keep falling into the trap of extrapolating data to me and my environment, and extrapolation of even GOOD data is not allowed mathematically.

The other thing is the definition of dementia. One friend is not DEMENTED, or ALZ, or stroked per doctor, yet she does not remember me even though we've known each other since 1953 and see each other at least every two years. She does not remember the comical things we always laugh about and could never forget unless the brain was damaged.

Her husband came home one day and found her (84yo), crying in a corner.

So what is that?

Another friend of my bro we visited at his age 85, did not remember me but we hadn't seen him in many years. But he remembered my bro and another friend he had worked with. His present wife said he didn't remember much about his first wife who died 30 yrs previously.

There are several other people I've worked with, the ones that haven't died, near my age when meeting in a store could not remember me. Another who had stroked remembered everything - not seen him since 1985.

All were educated.

When I looked at a lotta data, it seemed to me, I should take some DHA.

A little puzzling was:

"For those who exercise for 30 minutes or longer at least twice a week, add {perhaps zero?} points; for those who are inactive add one point."

Does that mean don't exercise a lot?

Regards.

[ ] Re: Calculate your Dementia Risk

Hi folks:An off list email from Al has prompted the thought that the most interesting way to use this dementia questionnaire may be to calculate what your twenty-year risk will be twenty years in the future.In my case it seems very likely, assuming I keep doing what I have been doing, that my risk will not rise with age. Which is very encouraging.(The question remains, however, about the accuracy of the scoring system. Logically, one would have thought that EVERYONE's risk of dementia would rise with age, no matter your risk factor readings.)Rodney.>> http://www.medpagetoday.com/2005MeetingCoverage/ICAD/dh/3737> > (More good news for people on CRON, I think).> > Rodney.

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