Release date: 2018-05-10 A new study in the United States found that concussions and more severe traumatic brain damage increase the risk of dementia. Concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury. The study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco research team for US veterans found that patients with concussion were at risk of dementia regardless of whether they lost consciousness or not. Specifically, the risk of dementia increased to 2.36 times in patients with unconscious concussion; the risk of dementia in patients with unconscious concussion increased to 2.51 times; if moderate to severe traumatic brain injury was reached, the patient's The risk of dementia increased to 3.77 times. The research team extracted data from nearly two thousand patients in the United States: one database was all veterans who suffered traumatic brain injury when they were soldiers or soldiers, and the other was caused by bomb shock waves in the Iraq or Afghanistan war. A veteran of traumatic brain injury. The average age of the patients was 49 years. Related research papers were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and Neurology on the 7th. The first author of the paper, Professor Deborah Barnes, said that the results obtained by the two databases are similar, indicating that the common concussion is associated with the risk of dementia as well as the concussion caused by the war. Professor Kristen Yaf, a senior author of the paper, said that brain damage accelerates neurodegenerative diseases, which may be caused by abnormal protein accumulation, which leads to neuronal death, and may also be traumatic to make the brain more vulnerable to other injuries or aging. . Source: Xinhuanet Wound Care Dressing Pad,Pu Wound Dressing,Wound Dressing Sticker ,Care Dressing Sticker Wenzhou Celecare Medical Instruments Co.,Ltd , https://www.wzcelecare.com
Study found that concussion increases risk of dementia