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Image Credit: “A Generation Without A Future”: Millennials Struggle To Survive In Modern Hong Kong
While reading this article the graphic reproduced above caught my eye.
OKC is mentioned! I seem to recall blogging about this affordability gap here, here, here, and here.
I guess HK is out of my retirement plans.
The retrospective analysis involving 30 million people in France shows that those with a history of alcohol use disorders had a threefold increased risk for dementia and that over half those with early-onset dementia had a history of alcohol problems. “This study used a phenomenally large database, and the result showing that half the cases of early-onset dementia were associated with alcohol use disorders is truly staggering,” Ballard told Medscape Medical News.
The researchers used diagnostic codes on hospital records to identify patients with dementia and those who had a history of alcohol use disorders. They found over a million cases of dementia, after excluding people with diseases that can lead to rare types of dementia and those with early-life mental disorders that can increase or confound dementia diagnosis. There were also 945,000 people with alcohol use disorders.
Results showed a strong association between a history of alcohol problems and dementia. This was especially noticeable in early-onset dementia, with 57% of the 57,000 patients who had developed dementia under the age of 65 years having a history of alcohol use disorders (66% of men and 37% of women).
In an analysis of just those patients in whom the first record of dementia occurred in 2011-2013 and adjusted for other risk factors found in the medical records, the risk for dementia was three times greater if the patient had a history of alcohol use disorders. The hazard ratio was 3.36 for men and 3.34 for women.
Read the Medscape article here. Or get down and dirty with the full study here.
Be careful with interpreting these results.
France. I’m not joking. Here’s a Global Consumption Map.
Newsweek article here. The government has deployed soldiers to the streets.
Let’s not mention the 10 or 11 other states with Level 3 warnings of reconsider travel.
Read the entire State Department advisory here.
Why isn’t the mainstream media all over this story?
Why doesn’t HGTV International House Hunters tell you about this risk?
Do not travel to:
Eurostat statistics in October 2016 showed that less than a third of under-35s in Italy had left their parental home, a figure 20 percentage points higher than the European average.
Source: Italy at the Grim Edge of a Global Problem | Wolf Street
The grown up child living in her childhood bedroom or the basement is actually a global problem. I don’t pretend to have the answers. All I know is my millennials are gone. Neither of the two are financially dependent upon the Bank of Mom & Dad. Hopefully we did some things right. Maybe we got a little lucky.
Probably both.
