OBESITY IN 30S BOOSTS DEMENTIA RISK IN LATER LIFE

WASHINGTON: People who are overweight (obese) in their early to mid-life face more hazard of dementia in their later lives, and the ones in their 30s faces triple the threat. 

Dementia:

Dementia is a deprivation of brain functions that are accompanied by certain diseases. This condition is severe enough to intervene in every day life. Memory loss seems to be example. Alzheimer’s is the most usual case of dementia. 

Symptoms:

Dementia symptoms include trouble with many fields of mental mapping, including:

• Perception
• Memory
• Behavior
• Personality
• Thinking

The primary symptom of dementia is forgetfulness. 

Causes:

Following medical conditions can lead to dementia:

• Low vitamin B12 level in body
• Brain injury
• Brain tumors
• Chronic alcohol misuse
• Use of certain medicines
• Change in blood sugar, sodium and calcium levels.

The above mentioned reasons for dementia are reversible if diagnosed earlier. We can compensate for these conditions in the early stage.

Most cases of dementia are nonreversible (degenerative), which can’t be stopped or treated. Following is some medical conditions for nonreversible dementia.

• Infection like HIV, AIDS, Lyme disease, and syphilis
• Parkinson’s disease
• Pick disease
• Huntington’s disease

Study:

By studying 451,232 obese patients, researchers found that for those who aged “between” 30-39 has 3.5 times more risk of dementia than those of the same age having no obesity. For those in their 40s, the risk fell to 70 percent more; for those in their 50s, the hazard is 50 percent more; and for those in their 60s, the risk fell to 40 percent more. People in their 70s with obesity were neither at heightened or lowered risk of developing dementia, while those in their 80s were 22 percent less likely to develop the disease, the study indicates.

The findings stated that with those in their 30s are at greater danger of developing vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. While those having obesity in their 40s-60s have lowered the hazard of Alzheimer’s disease while there is an increased risk of vascular dementia.

In other words, obesity at a younger age was coupled with an increased hazard of future dementia; obesity in people who had lived for approximately 60-80 years of age appeared to be linked with a reduced risk.

So, those young people who are obese are at the danger of getting forgetfulness in their older age, while smart people having no obesity are tension free of dementia.