Big belly increases risk of dementia

A big abdomen to the 40 elevates the risk of Alzheimer to the 70.

The people who have arrive at the 40 years with a prominent bellies have more risk of Alzheimer's disease to contract and other forms of dementia in the oldness, according to the result of a new investigation that ties for the first time the bellies of the medium age with the mental deterioration. Researchers from Kaiser Permanent followed more than 6,000 adults concluded that whatever more fat had the people in their abdomen between the 40 and 45 years, greater were his chances to lose the memory, to feel confused and to show senility signals as they aged. Those that had the most prominent bellies had a risk equivalent to more of the double of the one of the thin ones. According to they needed the authors this study in an appeared document this Wednesday online, published by "Neurology", the surprising thing is that a considerable belly seems to still increase the risk between which they are not obese or not even they have overweight. "one prominent belly, independently of the gross weight, is a powerful element that allows to anticipate insanity", it assured Rachel Whitmer, scientist of the Permanent Kaiser Division of Research de Oakland, California, that was the one who led this study. These findings are alarming if the increasing circunsferenc of waist of the North Americans considers, admitted Whitmer and other specialists.