Middle age bulge increases risk of later dementia
(poor eating habits)
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A 30 year study of 9,000 Swedish twins resulted in the conclusion that carrying excess weight in middle age might increase the risk of dementia later in life.
The research was not conducted specifically to prove that dementia was caused by the excess weight, but Dr. Weii Xu, the study’s lead author from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, said the evidence from the study points in that direction. The 9,000 twins included in the study submitted information about their height and weight when they were 43 years of age. Thirty years later, these same individuals were examined for signs of declining thinking and memory skills. Some of them were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Almost a third of the participants were overweight or obese in middle age. They had an 80% greater chance of getting some kind of dementia than their normal weight counterparts. The more participants weighed in mid-life, the higher their chance of incurring dementia, or ‘questionable dementia,” - meaning they had signs of declining cognitive reasoning, but not severe enough to be diagnosed as dementia. Read more: helium.com
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