Alzheimer’s disease: risk factors from a young age, detectable Naturopathy naturopathy specialist portal
Early on in the life of factors suggest the risk of Dementia
Risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease seem to be already at a young age to perform. Can help early identification of specific factors, the protection of affected people with increased risk better?
New research suggest that various factors can already point out at a young age to an increased risk for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. The new findings were in the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference® (AAIC®) in 2020 are presented.
What are the factors that indicate the risk for Alzheimer’s?
To early, recognizable risk factors, which may point to Alzheimer’s disease in late age, for example, include factors of heart health such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Diabetes. In addition, social factors seem to play a role, such as, for example, the quality of education.
The researchers also noted that older African-American people have a about twice as likely as older white people for a disease to Alzheimer’s or other forms of Dementia.
Memory can be protected in any age
By identifying modifiable Alzheimer’s risk factors and research on how these can be counteracted, would it be possible to reduce new cases and, finally, the total number of people with Alzheimer’s and other dementia diseases.
Life style to protect the cognitive function?
The researchers wanted to find out in their investigation into whether Lifestyle interventions aimed at many of the risk factors that protect cognitive function in older adults exposed to an increased risk of cognitive decline.
What is with poor cognition in conjunction?
In the case of more than 714 African-American Participants, the researchers found, for example, that high blood pressure and Diabetes with worse mental performance to hang in later life together. The same is true for a combination of several factors linked to heart health and occur during adolescence.
The researchers come to the conclusion that Diabetes, high blood pressure, as well as two or more risk factors for heart health in adolescence, in young adulthood or in mid-life with a statistically significantly poorer cognition in late life.
A healthy Lifestyle should be promoted
Efforts to promote a healthy lifestyle for the heart and the brain must not only include middle-aged adults, but also younger adults and adolescents who may be particularly susceptible to the negative effects of poor vascular health on the brain, claim the researchers, in a news release.
What is the impact of BMI on the risk for dementia?
There is also a link between a higher Body Mass Index (BMI) in early adulthood (20-49 years) with a higher risk for dementia in late adulthood was found. On the role of BMI in early adulthood and risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, relatively little is known. It were evaluated to determine the influence of BMI on the risk of Dementia, the data of 5,104 older adults from two studies, including 2,909 people from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and 2.195 from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study (Health ABC). Of this total sample, 18 percent African American and 56 percent were women.
Effects of increased BMI on women
In women, the risk of dementia increased with a higher BMI in early adulthood significantly. Compared to women with normal BMI in early adulthood and the risk of developing Dementia in obese women is 1.8 times higher in obese women even 2.5 times higher. The researchers found but no correlation between the BMI in mid-life and dementia risk in women.
Impact of BMI on men
In men, the risk for dementia in existing obesity in early adulthood is 2.5 times higher in the Overweight in mid-life is 1.5 times higher, and obesity in mid-life is 2 times higher than normally. In both women and in men the risk of Dementia decreased with a higher BMI in late life age.
Prevention needs to start earlier
The researchers found that a high BMI in adulthood is a risk factor for dementia in late life. Efforts to reduce dementia risk may need to begin earlier in life, with a focus on the prevention and treatment of obesity, reported the Team.
Protect education against dementia?
In a wide-ranging group of more than 2,400 individuals were monitored up to the age of 21 years, medically, could voice a higher quality of early childhood education with a better memory performance and a lower risk of late dementia are brought into connection. The results were between men and women, and between Black and White something different.
Education policy, with a significant impact on the risk of dementia
The study included 2.446 black and white men and women aged 65 years and older who had participated in the Washington Heights/Inwood Columbia Aging Project and the elementary school in the United States attended. Persons who attended school in States with a lower quality of education, experienced than older adults to have a faster decline of memory and languages, report the researchers. Black women and men, and white women who attended schools in States with higher education levels, less often, dementia. These results suggest that the risk of Dementia and cognitive function can be affected in later life by the state educational policy in the early age. (as)