{"id":674,"date":"2023-03-23T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:17:26","slug":"good-news-alcohol-and-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Good news! Alcohol and dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my MD friend, PN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">From JAMA<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Alcohol and dementia.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; font-size: 1.75em; line-height: 1.3; clear: both !important; color: #333333; padding-left: 40px;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #ed0973; padding-left: 40px;\">Conclusions<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a id=\"yiv2023248351m_2688446134135663257248812231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #9e1f63;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; padding-left: 40px;\">In conclusion, our analyses indicate that maintaining mild to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a decreased risk of dementia, whereas maintaining heavy drinking is associated with an increased risk of dementia. Notably, our analyses stratified by the initial amount of alcohol consumption indicate that reduction of drinking from a heavy to a moderate level and initiation of mild drinking were associated with a decreased risk of all-cause dementia and AD.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; padding-left: 40px;\">AD =Alzheimer\u2019s&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; padding-left: 40px;\">Daily intake :<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; padding-left: 40px;\">Mild 1\/2 drinks&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; padding-left: 40px;\">Moderate 3<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; font-family: TextSans Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #333333; padding-left: 40px;\">Heavy 4&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my MD friend, PN. From JAMA &#0160; Alcohol and dementia. &#0160; &#0160; Conclusions In conclusion, our analyses indicate that maintaining mild to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a decreased risk of dementia, whereas maintaining heavy drinking is associated with an increased risk of dementia. Notably, our analyses stratified by the initial amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6815,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}