US study found that chronic pain is associated with an increased risk of dementia

Release date: 2017-06-12

According to a report by the US "Qiaobao.com" on June 8, a recent study by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found that older people with chronic pain are at higher risk of developing dementia. The study was published in the June 5th issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.

According to reports, the researchers, with the assistance of the UCSF Department of Geriatrics, conducted more than 12 years of follow-up analysis of 10,000 elderly people over the age of 60. Studies have shown that older adults with persistent moderate to severe pain reported in 1998 and 2000 had a memory decline rate compared to those who did not have pain in the subsequent 10 years of memory testing. The person is 9.2% higher.

UCSF researcher Dr. Vitroll pointed out that older people need to maintain their own independent cognitive abilities, and up to one-third of the elderly suffer from chronic pain, so understanding the relationship between pain and cognitive decline is helping An important step for a crowd.

The study found three possible causes of chronic pain that increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, including taking too much opioids, taking too many medications to suppress pain, and pain may also affect brain memory and perform other recognitions. The ability to know the function.

Dr. Wittrock said that those with chronic pain are less likely to concentrate and their memory is prone to diminishing. Especially when the pain is very severe, the patient will pay too much attention to the pain transfer and interfere with the memory.

In addition, stress hormones that may cause cognitive decline in the body may also be activated under emotional stress in response to chronic pain, thereby affecting cognitive ability. In this regard, he suggested that patients should be given more care and care to alleviate the pain and emotional stress of patients.

Source: World Wide Web

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