Last weekend, A4M hosted the largest anti-aging medicine event ever, gathering over 5,500 guests, 120 globally renowned speakers and educators, and 400 market-shaping companies. Delivering four full days of cutting-edge science, the latest research, and meaningful, practical education, LongevityFest 2022 marked a pivotal point in A4M’s history and that of the specialty itself.
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Dementia is a growing global public health concern currently affecting 50 million people and is expected to rise dramatically to more than 150 million cases worldwide by 2050. Obesity, commonly measured by body mass index (BMI), continues to be a global epidemic and earlier studies suggested that obesity at midlife may lead to an increased risk for dementia. But the association between BMI and the risk of dementia remains unclear.
Now, researchers from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, have found that different patterns of BMI changes over one's life course may be an indicator of a person's risk for dementia. These findings appear online in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.
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According to recent research published in the journal Neurology, the more omega-3 you have the more your brain will thrive, ad findings show that those who consumed more foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids or took supplements were more likely to be better thinkers and avoid dementia, scoring higher in abstract reasoning tests and having a larger hippocampus which is an area of the brain that control memory.
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Research Highlights:
- Drinking two or more cups of coffee a day was associated with twice the risk of death from cardiovascular disease among people with severe hypertension compared to non-coffee drinkers, in a study of more than 18,600 men and women in Japan.
- Drinking only one cup of coffee a day was not associated with an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease at any blood pressure level.
- In contrast, drinking green tea was not associated with an increased risk of death related to cardiovascular disease at any blood pressure level, although both coffee and tea contain caffeine.
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