According to a new American study, people who are overweight at age 50 should be vigilant because this excess weight could promote the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from the National Institute of Health have studied the link between midlife obesity and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. They announced in this study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry that they had indeed found a link between being overweight or obese in middle age and the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Having a normal body mass index in midlife could be a protective measure against Alzheimer’s,” said Dr Madhav Thambisetty, neurologist and lead author of the study.
On the other hand, researchers cannot say whether losing weight after age 50 delays the process of brain aging or whether people who have a low body mass index have no risk of developing the disease.
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