{"id":26449,"date":"2025-04-23T09:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26449"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:24:37","slug":"17-ways-to-cut-your-risk-of-stroke-dementia-and-depression-all-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26449","title":{"rendered":"17 Ways to Cut Your Risk of Stroke, Dementia and Depression All at Once"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new study identified overlapping factors that affect your odds of developing these brain diseases late in life.<\/p>\n

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New research has identified 17 overlapping factors<\/a> that affect your risk of stroke, dementia and late-life depression, suggesting that a number of lifestyle changes could simultaneously lower the risk of all three.<\/p>\n

Though they may appear unrelated, people who have dementia or depression or who experience a stroke also often end up having one or both of the other conditions<\/a>, said Dr. Sanjula Singh, a principal investigator at the Brain Care Labs at Massachusetts General Hospital and the lead author of the study. That\u2019s because they may share underlying damage to small blood vessels in the brain, experts said.<\/p>\n

Some of the risk factors common to the three brain diseases<\/a>, including high blood pressure and diabetes<\/a>, appear to cause this kind of damage. Research suggests that at least 60 percent of strokes<\/a>, 40 percent of dementia cases<\/a> and 35 percent of late-life depression<\/a> cases could be prevented or slowed by controlling risk factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are striking numbers,\u201d said Dr. Stephanie Collier, director of education in the division of geriatric psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts. \u201cIf you can really optimize the lifestyle pieces or the modifiable pieces, then you\u2019re at such a higher likelihood of living life without disability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Often, the risk factors for these diseases are interconnected, and addressing one \u2014 for example, getting more exercise by going for routine walks with a friend<\/a> \u2014 can also help you address others, like excess weight and social isolation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re starting to work on one of them, very often you\u2019re actually improving multiple at the same time,\u201d Dr. Singh said. \u201cThat\u2019s a great way to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A new study identified overlapping factors that affect your odds of developing these brain diseases late in life.New research has identified 17 overlapping factors that affect your risk of stroke, dementia and late-life depression, suggesting that a number of lifestyle changes could simultaneously lower the risk of all three.Though they may appear unrelated, people who have dementia or depression or who experience a stroke also often end up having one or both of the other conditions, said Dr. Sanjula Singh, a principal investigator at the Brain Care Labs at Massachusetts General Hospital and the lead author of the study. That\u2019s because they may share underlying damage to small blood vessels in the brain, experts said.Some of the risk factors common to the three brain diseases, including high blood pressure and diabetes, appear to cause this kind of damage. Research suggests that at least 60 percent of strokes, 40 percent of dementia cases and 35 percent of late-life depression cases could be prevented or slowed by controlling risk factors.\u201cThose are striking numbers,\u201d said Dr. Stephanie Collier, director of education in the division of geriatric psychiatry at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts. \u201cIf you can really optimize the lifestyle pieces or the modifiable pieces, then you\u2019re at such a higher likelihood of living life without disability.\u201dOften, the risk factors for these diseases are interconnected, and addressing one \u2014 for example, getting more exercise by going for routine walks with a friend \u2014 can also help you address others, like excess weight and social isolation.\u201cIf you\u2019re starting to work on one of them, very often you\u2019re actually improving multiple at the same time,\u201d Dr. Singh said. \u201cThat\u2019s a great way to start.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26451,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26452,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26449\/revisions\/26452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}