Study: Vasectomy Linked to Higher Dementia Risk

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Study: Vasectomy Linked to Higher Dementia Risk

WASHINGTON – Men who have had a vasectomy may face an increased risk of developing a rare type of dementia marked by a steady loss of language skills, researchers said on Tuesday.
Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, writing in the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, linked this male sterilization surgery to a neurological condition called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA.

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I have so many comments I could make, in a light hearted jocular vein, but am afraid I will lapse into uncharity, so I will forego them. It is a fact, sadly, that like any other drastic contraceptive pharmaceutical or surgery, there are side effects, some of them drastic, most of them unpublicized.
 
Why am I not surprised?

Anybody who’d let someone else whittle on his essentials wasn’t right in the head to begin with.😃
 
Pretty meaningless if one does not know the incidence of the condition in the first place – doubling one’s chances of getting something that only 1 person in a million gets is one kind of risk, doubling one’s chances of getting something that 1 person in ten gets is quite another.
 
Dementia means insanity…I would think a man would have to be insane to let someone cut in that area of the body.
 
Kaninchen said:
Pretty meaningless if one does not know the incidence of the condition in the first place – doubling one’s chances of getting something that only 1 person in a million gets is one kind of risk, doubling one’s chances of getting something that 1 person in ten gets is quite another.
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For what it’s worth in the nursing home where my wife is Assistant Director of Nursing, about 10% of the residents have some form of mental impairment.
 
I dont by this study, since I think any man who goes under the knife for that procedure was already predisposed for some form of insanity.
 
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For what it’s worth in the nursing home where my wife is Assistant Director of Nursing, about 10% of the residents have some form of mental impairment.
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That’s not exactly surprising (it being a nursing home) but it still is no guide to the incidence of one particular form of impairment.

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Kaninchen said:
That’s not exactly surprising (it being a nursing home) but it still is no guide to the incidence of one particular form of impairment.

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I said, “for what it’s worth.”

But in a remote county of 10,000 people, to have half-a-dozen people with senile dementia would idicate that some form of mental impairment among the elderly is not rare.
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vern_humphrey said:
I said, “for what it’s worth.”

But in a remote county of 10,000 people, to have half-a-dozen people with senile dementia would idicate that some form of mental impairment among the elderly is not rare.
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Ah but it’s a “rare type of dementia” (primary progressive aphasia), how many included under the generic term “senile dementia” (not exactly rare) have the precise type involved in the study?
 
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