Higher prevalence of dementia in patients with schizophrenia: A nationwide population-based study

DISCUSSION:

Schizophrenia patients were more likely to have dementia compared with non-schizophrenia patients. This association seems greater in higher prevalence groups such as women and patients aged ≥65 years. Further investigation on the mechanism is required.

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Everything sucks.

Anyway, I found this:

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Both my mom and her sister (my Aunt) now have dementia.

Hopefully I wont go down the same road.

I am APOE3/APOE3.
Apo-ε3/ε3, the most common form of APOE. It is considered the ‘neutral’ genotype, Apo-e2/e2 is decreased risk while e4/e4 is increased risk. Basically I’m at normal risk.

My dad has dementia. I can see myself going that route mostly because my cognitive and memory functions have already declined. It just gets better and better.

Both my Grandfathers had dementia before they died. My father had cancer and had a rapid dementia like decline although I don’t know if it was the cancer, Alzheimer’s, the radiation treatment they had on his brain to try to keep the cancer out of his brain or a combination of those factors. It happened in a matter of a few months and was a shocking decline. The worst part about people with schizophrenia having dementia is that since we often don’t have kids of our own there’s usually little to no help when we develop it. Nephews and nieces may play with you but they usually are more likely to support their parents than us because we didn’t support them. Of course many people throw their parents in the nursing home as it is.

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My grandmother and her two sisters, all three with Alzheimers. My mom is okay for now, but she’s still young for it, she’s 61, no signs of it for now. Hope I don’t end up with it, sucks so much.

I took care of my grandmother in her final years and it was heartbreaking.

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Any fool could have told you what this study says. Any fool, (not a scientific fool), could have told you what any of these studies tell you. I’m 74. Do I have dementia? Anybody hear of Doctor Demento?

That’s interesting. We’ve had tons of mental illness in my family tree, but no cases of dementia.