Obesity might contribute to faster progression of Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.
Some blood markers associated with Alzheimer's increased nearly twice as fast among people with obesity compared to people who didn't have obesity, results presented Tuesday at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago indicate.
"This is the first time we've shown the relationship between obesity and Alzheimer's disease as measured by blood biomarker tests," senior researcher Dr. Cyrus Raji, a principal investigator in the Neuroimaging Labs Research Center of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
For the study, researchers tracked five-year data on more than 400 participants in an ongoing brain imaging study of Alzheimer's patients.
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