Link to study: American Academy of Neurology
After adjusting for factors such as age, sex and race, as well as health-related factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes, researchers found people who had been taking acid reflux drugs for more than 4.4 years had a 33% higher risk of developing dementia than people who never took the drugs.
Getting old is just so awful. If you don’t get dementia, then you might get cancer based on what someone else posted about what untreated acid reflux can do.
Not much of a choice. The way we approach end of life is not discussed enough. It feels like there has to be something better than a gradual slide into decrepitude or jumping off a bridge.