Brain and heart health are tied together. Here are 5 ways to control both
Geriatrician Samir Sinha, a clinician scientist at Sinai Health and Toronto’s University Health Network, welcomed the new guidelines, which he was not involved in developing.
“What’s good for your heart is good for your brain,” Sinha said, noting he often holistically brings up both areas with his patients.
Sinha suggested the recommendations could have included more, such as how the Lancet Commission noted that if someone has diabetes, getting it under control also helps prevent the future risk of dementia as well as reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Sinha said he hopes primary care providers and others who read the guidelines will increasingly think more like geriatricians as well as heart, brain and mental health specialists.
