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Is there a correlation between Parkinson's disease and Alzheimers/dementia? Google doesn't directly have the answer, but it seems that the answer is yes:

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Under 2% of elderly have Parkinson's: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/884818
WHO: 5–8% of people of people aged 60 or older have dementia: medicalnewstoday.com/articles/
But "at least 75% of PD patients who survive for more than 10 years will develop dementia": pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/197333

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Also "The risk of dementia in PD is about 1.7- to 5.9-times higher compared to controls" frontiersin.org/articles/10.33

However, no one seems to be talking about whether there is an increased risk of Parkinson's after a Dementia diagnosis. Does PD tend to happen before AD somehow?

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Anyway, I find it interesting that studies show coffee decreasing amounts of dementia/PD risk factors...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/363617

...but that when I Googled ways to lower Alzheimer's risks, I looked at 4 sites and none of them mentioned caffeine or coffee.

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