Midlife belly fat and the risk of dementia are longitudinally related with each other, reveals a recent research study conducted at the “Kaiser Permanente Division of Research”, in Oakland, California.

According to this study, the muscles tend to loose with the increase in age and therefore the bone mass is also reduced. It is one of the main reasons of gaining belly among the elderly people. Therefore measuring abdomen size in an old age would not be a good indicator. Instead the abdominal obesity in midlife could prove to be far better indicator of the long term ‘metabolic deregulation’ which often leads to dementia risks.

Central obesity measured by waist circumference has been considered to be linked with dementia along with the body mass index among the elders. Almost all previous studies established that a large abdomen in midlife also enhances the risks of diabetes, stroke, and coronary heart diseases. For the first time a longitudinal relationship between midlife belly fat and risk of dementia has been identified and established.

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