Sleep apnoea and Dementia

[roxie_09]

http://style.uk.msn.c...ly-to-suffer-dementia

Is this just another attempt to find a cause? x

[RATTER15]

I cant access that link!

[RATTER15]

It keeps coming up with this: "Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a third party.

Are you sure you want to continue sending this information?"

[roxie_09]

hmm :S. I got it from www.msn.com , and I had to click on a link if that's any help, was on my homepage when I signed in x

[mike11111]

I had the same as Ratter.

[roxie_09]

I will try and find another link, sorry about that, I can open the link :S it comes up as dell msn, maybe that's why? x

[marval]

Well I could read the link, not sure how true it is. I think I might have Sleep apnoea so I hope that is not what happens.

[roxie_09]

http://www.newser.com...a-cause-dementia.html

hope this one works x

[roxie_09]

I'm a bit sceptical about it Marval, there are always new 'leads', but nothing ever seems to come of them x

[marval]

Yes I agree, they are always coming up with new ideas.

[roxie_09]

But there are 100's of types of dementia. I would think that if it was as simple as that, scientists would have discovered this sooner? x

[RATTER15]

Not sure about 100's of types :-)

[didoatwork]

If I have understood the artcile correctly, they did tests on 300 women. Not really a good cross section! If they had tested thousands I would have been more interested in the results.

[Huderon]

No, it's just another scary story created by sloppy reporting and backed up by fluffy numbers.

[Sqad]

Out of 300 in the survey. only 100 met the criteria for OSA and out of that 100 36 developed OSA.

So.....out of 100 who had OSA 64% didn't develop any form of dementia.

Not much more one can say.

[roxie_09]

I'm only going on what I've been taught in uni. Apparently there are a variety of rare ones other than your alzeimers. X

[RATTER15]

Correct Roxie :-)

[roxie_09]

:). Can't wait for my next placement where I will be on a dementia ward :) will learn a lot more then rather than hearsay x

[RATTER15]

Correct roxie :-)