Cross-posted from Health

  • gorgori@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My grandma passed away from dementia a couple of years back. My mom has symptoms of ADHD. I am diagnosed with ADHD. The only person in the family to get diagnosed and actively treating with meds and stuff.

    I wonder if knowledge and meds can stave of dementia.

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      3 months ago

      Every week there is an article linking dementia to this and that. I really can’t keep up with it anymore. At this point everything causes dementia.

      I wouldn’t stress out of it. You might learn that stress is what causes dementia.

  • jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    One of my grandpas just died this year due to dementia related complications and it is a hell of a way to go. Really hope I dont end up with it getting as bad as I have seen it get before its too late to jump off a bridge.

  • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Uggg I hate seeing things like this

    ERASES RECENT MEMORY REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE RETURNS TO MERE MEDIUM-WORRY STATE Oh that’s fun I’m so glad i learned… uh, that ignorance is bliss ✨👍🤩🫠🧠

  • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    There was, however, no clear increase in the risk of dementia associated with adult ADHD among those who received psychostimulant medication, and evidence of reverse causation was mild.

    Actual journal here

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      3 months ago

      I read the abstract and I can’t understand if medicated ADHD adults don’t show the increase the unmedicated ones did or if the medication did not make a difference (increase or decrease) compared with unmedicated adults.

      So are medicated ADHDers statistically similar to unmedicated ADHDers or non ADHDers?

  • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Not surprised. My memory is already non existent. Lol. Maybe it’s the weed. Maybe it’s the adhd. Who knows.

  • Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    Tbh ya all don’t need to panic like that. While the finding appears to be sound what it does not tell is what happens in the cohort in 5/10/15 years. It is possible that an adult diagnosis of ADHD may only lead to an earlier onset and that the rest of the cohort will develop it in the same ratio. Until the cohort is not all through it doesn’t really say anything.

    Besides they appear to have excluded anyone who was already diagnosed with ADHD to begin with and only assessed people who were diagnosed as adult.

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    3 months ago

    OP can you add “unmedicated ADHD” to the title to be a bit more (but still not totally) accurate

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Fuckin super.

    Bundle that with my history of head trauma and I’m basically guaranteed to get it at this point.

    yay.

    • lath@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Good news then. A history of head trauma means you’re more likely to die early of a stroke from a random blood clot than to live long enough and experience dementia.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        woo…

        Well might as well live a healthy active lifestyle from this point on hoping for the beat outcome

        Gotta stack that deck in my favor Though basically everything before 25 could probably be best described as a path of self destruction, the future still isn’t written. I’ve been on the up and up for 6 years now.