Prof. UduakArchibong, founder of the group, stated this during the organisation’s 10th anniversary celebration, held at the Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio Secretariat in Uyo over the weekend
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Researchers from China’s Tianjin Medical University studied 365,682 participants from the UK Biobank, aged from 50 to 74.
Recall that there were rumours that the veteran actor was ill after pictures of him went viral on social media.
The issue of dementia in the professional game was sparked by the death of England’s Nobby Stiles in October.
The WHO, in its 2019 Global Health Estimates posted on its website, stated that NCDs made up seven of the world’s top 10 causes of death, a sharp increase from two decades ago.
Giwa who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday, said that stigmatisation and lack of information surrounding dementia, remained a global problem that called for a global action.
A neurologist, Dr Temitope Faronmbi, has said that occurrence of hallucinations in old people should not be termed as “witchcraft’’ but a symptom of a medical condition known as dementia.
New guidelines released by the World Health Organisation states that people who exercise regularly, avoid alcohol, smoking and eat a healthy diet can reduce the risk of developing dementia at an old age.
Dementia, which is a clinical syndrome caused by neurodegeneration and characterized by progressive deterioration in cognition and capacity for independent living, has been discovered to have increased astronomically in Nigeria in the last two decades.
The study, published Tuesday in the Lancet Public Health journal, included 1,109,343 dementia patients discharged from French hospitals during the period.