United States: It turns out obese men can lose their memory a decade before women, research has indicated.
The experts showed that dementia is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide and, with time, takes away from them their ability to live a normal life and memory; those over 75 years are most vulnerable.
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However, a team at Imperial College London learned that obesity causes the memory-stealing disease to develop in men only, years earlier.
The values showed that researchers investigated 34,000 adults in the UK Biobank with obesity, hypertension, and T2D with ages ranging from 45 to 82 years old, all of whom are at a high risk of dementia.
They discovered a positive correlation between being overweight and developing poor brain health in the course of using information obtained from men aged 55 to 74 while in women, this was a little different after a decade, Daily Mail reported.
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Research shows that patients with coronary heart disease or obesity are at high risk of developing dementia.
Scientists state this is because it causes inflammation and constriction of blood vessels in the brain and is associated with cognitive deterioration.
A new research, which appears in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, is the first to provide details of how bad cardiovascular health affects the brains of the two sexes at varying ages.
In the study, researchers made video and photo recordings of participants and used MRI and CT scans to determine the volume and weight of their brains as well as performing a circumferential abdominal measurement in order to determine the volume of the participants’ belly fat.
From these scans, researchers were able to compare the cardiovascular risk and fat on brain neurodegeneration or the gradual loss of neurons in the brain which lead to dementia, Daily Mail reported.
The authors discovered that a larger waist circumference also meant a reduced brain size – fewer neurons and brain cell connections.
This is important since findings have previously established that people with dementia experience a reduced brain size.
However, this belly fat to smaller brain volume ratio was stronger in men than women Here, the graphs have been packed in a way that the men have relatively stronger levels of belly fat with relatively smaller brain volume than women.