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Excess weight on women may increase risk of Alzheimer Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 18:03
A study published Tuesday concludes that women with excess weight may have a greater risk of contracting Alzheimer’s, once again linking the disease to vascular factors such as hypertension and diabetes.
The researchers found “an amazing relationship” between having too much weight to 70 years and develop 10 to 18 years later this form of dementia disruptive mental capacities.
The work, published in the journal North American Archives of Internal Medicine, focuses on the relationship between dementia and body-mass index (BMI, in English acronym), which tackles the weight to height.
The study, which ran for 18 years, focused on 392 men and Swedish women who were accompanied the 70 to 88 years under a geriatric population study in Sweden.
The connection between corpulência and dementia was found only in women, and the analysis focused mainly on women to be much smaller the number of men in the sample.
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