Researchers from the Northern California Research Institute did a study on the association between a sedentary lifestyle, cognitive performance, and the risk of dementia. For this study, they followed a group of adults for 25 years and first found that those who did the least exercise were also those who had the lowest cognitive exercise scores. They also found that people who watched television for at least four hours each day also had low scores on these tests when they reached middle age.
For Kristine Yaffe, professor of psychiatry, neurology and epidemiology at the University of California at San Francisco, these findings carry within themselves a message of hope because “it seems likely that people can reduce their risk of decline. cognitive and dementia, just by changing their lifestyle “said the doctor at the Alzheimer’s Association Annual International Conference currently being held in Washington, USA.
It was during this same conference that researchers announced than a simple saliva test one day will undoubtedly be able to detect the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. According to the Association, more than 5 million people are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States, and 28 million could develop the disease by 2050.
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