Who will be heading out to Houston for the MDS PAS Congress in 2026???
I’ll be there and would love to meet up with any other peeps from the platform if you’re there!
I have a poster on environmental risk factors for Lewy body dementia considering sex-specific risk. Spoiler alert, we found not living in a suburb, decaffeinated drinks, welding/brazing/flame cutting metal, soldering, metal dust/fumes can increase LBD risk for both sexes. Moderate physical exercise can lower risk, particularly for males. So while metal exposure looks bad, I’m obviously not gonna turn my back on all as a heavy metal lover i made this meme for the poster
These results are fascinating! I’m particularly interested (alarmed?!) to see decaffeinated drinks there: does this suggest that caffeine is protective, or is the risk factor explicitly drinks that were caffeinated and underwent a decaffeination process?
Here I thought I was taking the healthy option by swapping one coffee a day to decaf
apparently, decaffeination process includes an organic solvent, and the amount left is minimal and shouldn’t be harmful. but the peeps in the survey are over the age of 60s so with how things were not regulated back then, who knows what ended up in their decaffeinated drinks. decaffeination also takes out other substances from drinks too, and those may be the beneficial stuff in addition to caffeine as well. something worth poking further i think! trying to get the paper published…
i made this meme for the poster
