According to a recent study, excess body fat is a risk factor for a decrease in cognitive function in how adults process. For the research, they looked at cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes or high blood pressure, or vascular brain injury. There was a link between body fat and lower cognitive scores. This suggests other yet unconfirmed ways that combine excess body fat with reduced cognitive function. The study was published in the journal JAMA Network Open.Also read – World Obesity Day: 6 Best Ways to Avoid Obesity While Working From Home
In the study, 9,166 participants were measured by bioelectric barrier analysis to evaluate their total body fat. Also read – 5 Kitchen Friendly Foods That Can Help Improve Physical And Mental Health
Also, 6,733 participants underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure abdominal fat around organs known as intestinal fat, and MRI also assessed vascular brain injury – areas of the brain affected by a decrease in blood flow to the brain. Also read – Food Tips: Here are 6 nutritional facts about pistachios
Michael G. of McMaster University. “Our results suggest that strategies to prevent or reduce excess body fat can maintain cognitive function,” said Sonia Anand, a professor of medicine at the Degrut School of Medicine and a vascular medicine specialist at Hamilton Health Sciences. (HHS). He is also a senior scientist at McMaster and HHS’s Population Health Research Institute.
She added that “the effect of increased body fat continues even after adjusting to its effect on increasing cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as cardiovascular brain injury, which encourages researchers to examine which other pathways add extra fat.” Reduces cognitive function. “
Co-author Eric Smith, a neurologist, scientist and associate professor of clinical neuroscience at the University of Calgary, stated that “preserving cognitive function is one of the best ways to prevent dementia in old age.” Maintaining probably prevents dementia.
Smith heads Brain Core Labs for the two population groups used for this new analysis – the Canadian Alliance for Healthy Hearts and Minds (CAHHM) and Pure Mind – a sub-study of the vast, international potential urban rural epidemiological (PURE). Study
Participants ranged in age from 30 to 75 with an average age of about 58 years. Only more than 56 percent were women; They all lived in Canada or Poland. Most were of white European descent, with about 16 percent having other ethnic backgrounds. Individuals with known cardiovascular disease were excluded.
(With ANI inputs)
