Obesity Increases Risk of Dementia
There is growing evidence that obesity raises the risk of dementia.Â
The study finds that when a person is overweight is key.Â
Researchers studied the records of thousands of obese hospital patients.Â
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For people in their thirties the risk of developing dementia was more than three times higher than for people of normal weight.Â
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The risk was lower for patients who became obese at a later age.
