Sleep apnea can lead to dementia diagnosis

This article states that some cases of dementia are caused by SDB and can be reversed with proper treatment.

I don't know how prevalent a diagnosis of "dementia" is in this situation (i.e. the complications of SDB being the only cause of dementia). Dementia is diagnosed mostly in older patients, but sometimes in younger ones too.

Also, I don't know if this is always reversible, as sometimes oxygen deprivation can cause irreversible damage.


Link ===> http://www.dailytidings.com/news/201708 ... -diagnosis

D.H. wrote:This article states that some cases of dementia are caused by SDB and can be reversed with proper treatment.

I don't know how prevalent a diagnosis of "dementia" is in this situation (i.e. the complications of SDB being the only cause of dementia). Dementia is diagnosed mostly in older patients, but sometimes in younger ones too.

Also, I don't know if this is always reversible, as sometimes oxygen deprivation can cause irreversible damage.


Link ===> http://www.dailytidings.com/news/201708 ... -diagnosis

Been reading the bottom of the trash can again! Jim

Not necessarily so - new brain cells are NOT always created though this was thought to be so years ago.

Goofproof wrote: Been reading the bottom of the trash can again! Jim

lol Actually I just saw that story in the news feed at the top of this forum when not logged in.

kteague wrote:

Goofproof wrote: Been reading the bottom of the trash can again! Jim

lol Actually I just saw that story in the news feed at the top of this forum when not logged in.

Generally you turn a trash can over in school or a office it says PROPERTY OF_____,

D.H.'s, says READ ME! Then he posts the scrapings. Jim

[quote=]This article states that some cases of dementia are caused by SDB and can be reversed with proper treatment.

I don't know how prevalent a diagnosis of "dementia" is in this situation (the complications of SDB being the only cause of dementia). Dementia is diagnosed mostly in older patients, but sometimes in younger ones too.

Also, I don't know if this is always reversible, as sometimes oxygen deprivation can cause irreversible damage.


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Check out the posts on this forum from xxyzx, goofproof, palerider and some others. You can readily see that apnea CAN lead to dementia. It is all over this forum!

There does seem to be some logic to the idea of a link between oxygen deprivation and dementia. I am thinking of TIAs, which when enough happen can lead to dementia. If memory serves me, the TIAs short change oxygen to the brain and pathways die off. Probably over simplified.

Dementia in early stages can improve through various treatments, ie speech therapy for aphasia, etc, but I haven't seen anything to indicate long term outcomes are improved.

CPAP treatment that improves quality of sleep, facilitates REM, and allows the brain to do what it's supposed to do at night, should improve brain functions.

The 1 guy who was "cured" is suspect. Has about as much credence, to me, as the friend, who had a friend, who knew somebody who ........

Guest wrote:

wrote:This article states that some cases of dementia are caused by SDB and can be reversed with proper treatment.

I don't know how prevalent a diagnosis of "dementia" is in this situation (the complications of SDB being the only cause of dementia). Dementia is diagnosed mostly in older patients, but sometimes in younger ones too.

Also, I don't know if this is always reversible, as sometimes oxygen deprivation can cause irreversible damage.

Check out the posts on this forum from xxyzx, goofproof, palerider and some others. You can readily see that apnea CAN lead to dementia. It is all over this forum!

You left out Guest Wouldn't want to leave them out, just in case treatment becomes possible. Jim

Occasional visitor CaptMidnight here with a comment on an interesting original post and attached article.

There are quite a few scientific studies relating OSA to cognitive impairment, and some to dementia.

Here is the abstract of just one. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25070768

The secondary sequela from OSA are numerous, and one suspects, many are related to inflammation, cognitive impairment included.

http://answers.sleepfoundation.org/prof ... p-can-help

Those of you who have had c-reactive protein measured in blood work taken before beginning, and also after a while on optimized xpap therapy might have noticed a healthy decline in this bad-guy of an inflammation marker.


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