An older patient is concerned that her neighbor was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and asks a nurse what can be done to decrease the risk of Alzheimer's Disease
The nurse includes which of the following in the response to the patient? (Select all that apply.)
a. Maintain blood pressure within normal limits
b. Smoking cessation
c. Maintain control of blood sugar (hemo-globin A1C ?7)
d. Eliminate fats from the diet
e. Maintain ideal body weight
ANS: A, B, C
Recommendations to decrease risk of neurocognitive disorders include maintaining blood pres-sure within normal limits, maintaining low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≤100, maintaining he-moglobin A1C ≤7, taking aspirin (81 mg enteric coated) for persons with risk for heart disease and without contraindications, maintaining optimal control of heart failure, and smoking cessation. Eliminating fats from the diet is not recommended. Although maintaining ideal body weight is important to prevent many other chronic illnesses, it is not cited as a factor to decrease the risk of neurocognitive disorders.
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