Lower Bmi Linked With Alzheimer’s

Lower Bmi Linked With Alzheimers

A new research finds that lower weight in seniors is associated with an increased risk of dementia, and weight loss correlated with a more rapid decline in Alzheimer’s disease. Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital conducted a study that observed older people who were considered cognitively normal and had a lower body mass index (BMI) had more widespread deposits of beta-amyloid protein in the brain. This is a protein that is the primary component of plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.

The degradation of nerve cells in the brain, which causes the symptoms associated with Alzheimer’s disease, is thought to …read more