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Smoking, obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure ... Factor of "shrinking the size of the brain"A recent study confirmed that smoking and obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure may cause brain shrinkage, which leads to the decline in mental ability after a period of up to 10 years.
The researchers found in a study of 1352 people, data evaluation, the average age of 54, when their participation in the study, that smoking and high blood pressure, diabetes and excess weight are all associated with serious changes in the blood vessels of the brain.
The researchers in this study recently published in the Journal of Neurology work tests to measure blood pressure and cholesterol level and sugar to the sample, as well as to measure body mass, waist circumference, and underwent the participants to X-ray scan on the brain through years of study, which lasted for a decade.
The results of the study:Show that people who were suffering from high blood pressure have registered a decline rapidly in the tests the ability of planning and decision-making resulting from higher rates of growth areas more damage to the brain vessels of people with normal blood pressure.
While people with diabetes in middle age has suffered from the contraction in the size of the brain in the area known as hippocampus.
Smokers also recorded year-old went missing in the size of the brain than non-smokers with the increase in the rate of areas of damage to blood vessels in the brain.
While the people who are obese in middle age were more likely to decline executive jobs, people who have high rates of waist size were more likely to decline faster in the size of the brain.
The researchers found in a study of 1352 people, data evaluation, the average age of 54, when their participation in the study, that smoking and high blood pressure, diabetes and excess weight are all associated with serious changes in the blood vessels of the brain.
The researchers in this study recently published in the Journal of Neurology work tests to measure blood pressure and cholesterol level and sugar to the sample, as well as to measure body mass, waist circumference, and underwent the participants to X-ray scan on the brain through years of study, which lasted for a decade.
The results of the study:Show that people who were suffering from high blood pressure have registered a decline rapidly in the tests the ability of planning and decision-making resulting from higher rates of growth areas more damage to the brain vessels of people with normal blood pressure.
While people with diabetes in middle age has suffered from the contraction in the size of the brain in the area known as hippocampus.
Smokers also recorded year-old went missing in the size of the brain than non-smokers with the increase in the rate of areas of damage to blood vessels in the brain.
While the people who are obese in middle age were more likely to decline executive jobs, people who have high rates of waist size were more likely to decline faster in the size of the brain.
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