Int J Epidemiol: Obesity or a direct link to an increased risk of dementia in people.

In a study published in the international journal, scientists from institutions such as University College London have found that obesity or a direct link to an increased risk of dementia in individuals, and weight management plays a key role in reducing the body's risk of dementiaThe results of this paper suggest that obese individuals may be at higher risk of developing dementia in later life than individuals with a normal bmi () in the normal rangeFILE PHOTO: Researchers say the findings may provide new evidence that obesity has important application value for indicating dementia risk; individual and waist circumference status may be monitored to effectively avoid metabolic abnormalities in the body, so the researchers recommend that people use healthy and balanced diet patterns (such as Mediterranean diet patterns), appropriate physical activity and reduced alcohol intake to reduce body weight to normal levels throughout adulthoodCurrent clinical guidelines suggest that obesity is an important modifiable risk factor associated with individual lifestyle behavior, but different studies tend to have different results, so researchers don't yet know the specific link to it, and researchers believe that obesity may still be a protective health factor for older peopleIn this new study, researchers collected data from a representative sample of people aged and over in the UK from the Uk's Longitudinal Study of Ageing, using three different sources to determine an individual's dementia, namely the diagnosis of a doctor, the reporting of information and the situation alman-to-hospital statisticsThe researchers said that at the start of the study at the start of the average annual follow-up study there was an increased risk of dementia compared to those in the population (normal levels) and that there appeared to be significant gender differences in the risk of obesity-related dementia( waist circumference), women with significant gender differences (based on waist circumference) had a higher risk of dementia than women with normal levels of age, education level, marital status, smoking behavior, genetic factors (genes), Diabetes was not associated with high blood pressure, but the researchers did not find such an association in male participantsObese people had a higher risk of developing dementia when analyzed in conjunction with waist circumferencePrevious studies have shown that obesity may contribute to an increased risk of dementia, or by directly affecting cytokines and fat cells, or indirectly by having negative effects on cardiovascular risk factors, while some researchers believe that excess body fat may promote the accumulation of amyloid protein or damage in the brain through metabolic and vascular pathways, thereby increasing the body's risk of dementiaThe researchers say that the association between obesity and dementia may potentially mediate other factors such as hypertension or anticholinergic drug therapy is not illustrated in this study, but the researchers want to clarify the interaction between obesity and other risk factors in middle age , such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and gene carrying, and the risk of dementia in individualsDementia is a major health challenge facing the world's population sourm of the century, which threatens the successful aging of the population, and this study finds that rising obesity rates may exacerbate progressFinally, the researchers say that by identifying factors that may increase the risk of dementia in the body affected by lifestyle factors, researchers hope that not all cases of dementia can be prevented through public health interventions() Original origin: