SOURCE: Medical News Today
DATE: March 9, 2009
EXCERPT: "Older men with higher levels of fat appear more likely to experience declines in cognitive function over seven years, but the same association does not appear to occur in older women.
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"Women show trends toward inverse associations, with higher levels of adiposity being associated with less cognitive change," the authors write. "Traditional metabolic factors, adipocytokines [compounds produced by fat tissue] and sex hormones do not explain this sex difference. Future studies should confirm these longitudinal associations with adiposity and cognitive change and investigate why adiposity has inverse associations in men and women."" more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Kanaya AM, Lindquist K, Harris TB, Launer L, Rosano C, Satterfield S, Yaffe k; Health ABC Study. Total and regional adiposity and cognitive change in older adults: The Health, Aging and Body Composition (ABC) study.Arch Neurol. 2009 Mar;66(3):329-35.
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