South Korean doctors: metabolic syndrome increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease by 11 times
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Doctors from South Korea talked about the connection between Alzheimer's disease and one of the well-known ailments – metabolic syndrome, writes the Daily Express.
According to them, patients with this common condition are 11 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's than people who have never had it. “In patients with metabolic syndrome, the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease is 11.48 times higher,” scientists called an unexpected reason for the development of pathologies.
Biologists studied the condition and data of more than 84 thousand patients aged 60 and older. They concluded that diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity are damaging to blood vessels. If earlier doctors simply established a connection between metabolic syndrome and dementia, now they have proven its effect on the development of Alzheimer's disease.
Metabolic syndrome is a complex of metabolic disorders in which the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and type II diabetes is increased. Decreased physical activity and high-calorie diets are the main reasons for the increasing incidence of metabolic syndrome.
Earlier, an international team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge stated that a neurodegenerative disorder at the very initial stage of development affects several areas of the brain at the same time, and does not start at one point, which is the reason for the relatively rapid progression of dementia.
