Shocking Discovery: Obesity Causes Neurodegeneration Similar to Alzheimer's Disease - SciTechDaily
A correlation between neurodegeneration in obese people and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients has been found in a new study led by scientists at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill University.
This suggests that losing excess weight could slow cognitive decline in aging and lower risk for AD.Previous research has shown that obesity is linked with Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related changes, such as cerebrovascular damage and amyloid-ß accumulation.“Our study strengthens previous literature pointing to obesity as a significant factor in AD by showing that cortical thinning might be one of the potential risk mechanisms.” — Filip MorysThey compared the AD patients with healthy controls, and obese with non-obese individuals, creating maps of grey matter atrophy for each group.The scientists found that obesity and AD affected grey matter cortical thinning in similar ways.