TY - JOUR
AU - Diogenes,
AB - Age and Ageing 2008; 37: 246–247  The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. doi:10.1093/ageing/afn067 All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org stroke. Once an adjustment was made for cardiovascular Can stress cause dementia? risk factors, any association between hysterectomy and heart If the brain was a simple machine, it might be reasonable to disease was lost. It would appear that patients referred for suggest that overuse induced by stress could cause dementia. hysterectomy are more likely to have heart disease, but that This simplistic hypothesis was tested in a group of twins a common unknown factor is associated with each. initially assessed in 1967 (Alzheimer’s Disease 2007; 3: 205 – 9). When they were reviewed 30 years later it was Monitoring skin temperature in diabetic found that there was no relationship between measures of foot ulcers occupational stress and dementia. Much more relevant was that dementia was more common in those who initially One of the most serious complications of late-onset diabetes showed an adverse response to stress. It would appear that is foot ulceration. There was the suggestion that monitoring there is a common predisposition to a poor 
TI - News and Reviews
JF - Age and Ageing
DO - 10.1093/ageing/afn067
DA - 2008-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/news-and-reviews-02yZ3wUvqn
SP - 246
EP - 247
VL - 37
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -