JADR: What's new! Obesity may accelerate the disease effects of Alzheimer's disease!

3, 2021 // -- In a recent study published in the international journal Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, scientists from the University of Sheffield and others found that being too heavy may be an additional burden on brain health, which may accelerate the onset and effects of Alzheimer's disease.
in this groundbreaking multi-modal neuroimaging study, researchers found that obesity may lead to susceptible to nerve tissue, maintain a healthy weight in people with mild Alzheimer's disease, or help protect the structure of the brain.
The findings of this paper also highlight the potential impact of middle-age body weight on brain health in later life, and researcher Annana Venneri says more than 50 million people worldwide now suffer from Alzheimer's disease, a cruel disease that scientists around the world are still unable to cure despite decades of research and some research.
Precautionary measures play a key role in combating the disease, and it should be emphasized that this study does not indicate that obesity induces Alzheimer's disease, but it does show that being overweight is an additional burden on brain health and worsens alzheimer's disease.
Photo Source: The University of Sheffield is able to induce diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia that can lurk for years, so it's too late to lose weight by the age of 60; now we're starting to think about brain health and prevent related diseases as early as possible.
and educating children and adolescents about the burden of overweight on a wide range of diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases. In the
study, researchers analyzed the results of MRI scans of the brains of 47 clinically diagnosed patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, 68 patients with mild cognitive impairment, and 57 individuals with cognitive health;
researchers compared a number of different brain imaging images and measured differences in local concentrations in brain tissue to assess levels of gray matter in the participants' brains, which had begun to deteriorate in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, the integrity of white matter, blood flow to the brain, and participants' obesity levels.
researchers believe that maintaining a healthy weight in people with mild Alzheimer's disease or maintaining the structure of the brain in the event of age and disease-related weight loss.
Dr. Matteo De Marco says weight loss is often one of the first symptoms in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease because people tend to forget things or start eating easy-to-eat snacks, such as cookies or chips, between nutritious foods; Maintaining a healthy weight may help protect the brain structure of people who have already experienced mild Alzheimer's disease, unlike other diseases such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes, and people don't usually consider the association and importance between nutrition and neurological symptoms, but these findings suggest that nutrition may help preserve the brain's structure.
() Original source: Dake Manmohi D, De Marco Matteo, Blackburn Daniel J, et al. Obesity and Brain Vulnerability in Normal and Abnormal Aging: A Multimodal MRI Study, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports (2021). DOI:10.3233/ADR-200267