Alcohol consumption impacts the changes of cognitive health and may lead to onset of dementia. Ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde have a direct neurotoxic effect, leading to permanent structural and functional brain damage. Further, vascular dementia with vascular risk factors such as high blood pressure, hemorrhagic stroke, atrial fibrillation, and heart failure are also associated.
In a recent study, researchers have proved that people who had been diagnosed with mental and behavioral disorders or chronic diseases were attributable to the chronic use of alcohol. Methodology: The study was carried out by analyzing the nationwide retrospective cohort study of all adult (≥20 years) patients admitted to hospital in metropolitan France between 2008 and 2013. Associations of onset of dementia and alcohol use disorders were analyzed in multivariate Cox models among patients admitted to…
