Reveals "Strong Link" between dementia in youth obesity and old age

New York: American medical experts, after studying more than 5,000 adults, have discovered a "strong link" between obesity in adolescence and dementia in old age, but this does not necessarily mean being obese or overweight in adolescence. Overweight people must suffer from dementia in old age.

is a mental illness that usually occurs in old age. The brain cells of a person with dementia gradually begin to deplete, which in the early stages makes it impossible for the person to distinguish between right and left and window doors and he does not even realize the basic needs like defecation.

As the disease progresses, the victim's memory almost disappears and he or she eventually dies. So far there is no cure for the disease and even current dementia medications can only slow it down, nothing more.

Adina Zaki Al-Hazuri, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University in New York, and her colleagues analyzed the medical histories of 5,104 seniors and found that "adults", ie women between the ages of 21 and 40, They were overweight, having a 180% higher risk of developing dementia by age 70 (compared to normal-weight women in the same age group), while being obese during puberty. Women with dementia had a 250 percent higher risk of developing dementia in old age.

Similarly, the risk of dementia was found to be 150% higher in obese men and 250% higher in obese men during puberty. In addition, men who were obese in middle age were 200% more likely to develop dementia in old age.

Although this study has shown a strong link between dementia in youth and middle age and dementia in old age, it is not yet possible to conclusively determine the cause of obesity or overweight between the ages of 20 and 40. Dementia can also occur in old age.