Common Heart Medication Causes Dementia

If you’ve got a serious heart condition, then the chances are good that you’ll be on the same heart medication as 18 million other Americans. (At least that was the figure in 2016 and it is even more by now.)

It’s the 41st most prescribed drug in America, despite the fact that it was first approved for use as a rodenticide in 1952. That’s right. A heart drug that started life as rat poison.

But that wasn’t even the worst of it. The Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City’s study turned up something even less pleasant.

It increases your risk of developing dementia-type disorders like Alzheimer’s, and the chances are higher if you’re under 70.

Warfarin has been used so much because it’s an effective anticoagulant, or blood thinner. This is why it was an effective rat poison. Too much of it thins the blood enough to kill you, but just enough is effective at stopping blood clots from forming.

The problem is that most people who take it are on the drug for life. Researchers followed long-term users for up to 8 years to find out if there was any correlation with warfarin and dementia.

And that’s exactly what they found. It turns out that the longer you’re on Warfarin, the more likely you are to get dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

But they also found that there was another factor that increased the danger even more (even among long-term users): dosage. They discovered that if Warfarin dosages were too high, too low or just erratic, the risk to patients was greater than if they were on a steady and appropriate dose.

At this point you might be wondering why doctors don’t avoid trouble by just prescribing the right dosage, but unfortunately this is easier said than done.

The way that Warfarin works is by lowering the amount of active vitamin K1 in the bloodstream, but it’s not the only substance that does that.

There are lots of other drugs and types of foods that can raise or lower the amount of K1 flowing in your system, so getting the warfarin dose right is a bit like trying to hit a moving target, even for experienced doctors.

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