Middle-aged people with extra abdominal fat are more likely to suffer from dementia later in life, according to a report from the Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Sudha Seshadri and colleagues reviewed data from the long-term Framingham Heart Study. The review included 733 people with an average age of 60. About 70 percent were women. The team looked at measurments such as body-mass index, waist circumference and brain volume.
They found that people with bigger BMIs -- those who were heavier for their weight -- tended to have smaller brains.
"More importantly, our data suggests a stronger connection between central obesity, particularly the visceral fat component of abdominal obesity, and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease," Seshadri said.
Results of this study were published early online in Annals of Neurology.
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