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09-01-2015, 03:54 PM
One more reason to watch the waistline: New research says people's weight in middle age may influence not just whether they go on to develop Alzheimer's disease, but when.
Obesity in midlife has long been suspected of increasing the risk of Alzheimer's. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health took a closer look and reported Tuesday that being overweight or obese at age 50 may affect the age, years later, when Alzheimer's strikes. Among those who eventually got sick, more midlife pounds meant an earlier onset of disease.
It will take larger studies to prove if the flip side is true -- that keeping trim during middle age might stall later-in-life Alzheimer's. But it probably won't hurt.
"Maintaining a healthy BMI at midlife is likely to have long-lasting protective effects," said Dr. Madhav Thambisetty of NIH's National Institute on Aging, who led the study reported in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
About 5 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer's, a number that is expected to more than double by 2050, barring a medical breakthrough, as the population ages.
Alzheimer's starts quietly ravaging the brain more than a decade before symptoms appear. With a cure so far elusive, researchers are hunting ways to at least delay the disease, and lifestyle changes are among the possible options.
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Obesity in midlife has long been suspected of increasing the risk of Alzheimer's. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health took a closer look and reported Tuesday that being overweight or obese at age 50 may affect the age, years later, when Alzheimer's strikes. Among those who eventually got sick, more midlife pounds meant an earlier onset of disease.
It will take larger studies to prove if the flip side is true -- that keeping trim during middle age might stall later-in-life Alzheimer's. But it probably won't hurt.
"Maintaining a healthy BMI at midlife is likely to have long-lasting protective effects," said Dr. Madhav Thambisetty of NIH's National Institute on Aging, who led the study reported in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
About 5 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer's, a number that is expected to more than double by 2050, barring a medical breakthrough, as the population ages.
Alzheimer's starts quietly ravaging the brain more than a decade before symptoms appear. With a cure so far elusive, researchers are hunting ways to at least delay the disease, and lifestyle changes are among the possible options.
You can read the complete story here. (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_ALZHEIMERS_OBESITY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEM PLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-09-01-07-19-24)
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