According to recent study, hundreds of thousands of Britons use medications for overactive bladders, which may raise their risk of dementia.
The medications, known as anticholinergics, prevent the bladder from contracting by decreasing the activity of certain muscles.
This lessens the frequency of urination and the spasms that might lead to incontinence. However, according to a recent research including.
Almost a million British citizens, several of these drugs may raise dementia risk by around a third. British investigators examined.
The medical data of 800,000 people without memory robbing illness to just over 170,000 patients with dementia in England who were over 55.
Overall, the authors discovered that using an anticholinergic was associated with an 18% higher chance of being diagnosed with dementia.
