{"id":90413,"date":"2025-03-22T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90413"},"modified":"2025-03-22T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:30:44","slug":"age-specific-prevalence-of-dementia-in-this-country-has-steadily-declined-for-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90413","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;age-specific prevalence of dementia in this country [has] steadily declined for 40 years&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/22\/health\/dementia-rates-elderly.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/22\/health\/dementia-rates-elderly.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 85-89yo prevalence 23% in 1905 cohort, 1915 18%, 1935 11%, 1945 8%.<\/p>\n<p>Reasonable explanations include BP meds, statins, decreased smoking, better air quality. I&#8217;d add fewer lifetime head injuries &#8212; Boxing was extremely popular from 1920s to 1940s and nobody wore helmets at work or play. I suspect the incidence will stabilize at around 8% though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/22\/health\/dementia-rates-elderly.html For 85-89yo prevalence 23% in 1905 cohort, 1915 18%, 1935 11%, 1945 8%. Reasonable explanations include BP meds, statins, decreased smoking, better air quality. I&#8217;d add fewer lifetime head injuries &#8212; Boxing was extremely popular from 1920s to 1940s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90413\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-90413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90414,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90413\/revisions\/90414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}