Miia K. Kivipelto (born 1973) is a Finnish neuroscientist and professor at the University of Eastern Finland and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Her research focuses on dementia and Alzheimer's disease. (wikipedia)
If an individual adopts an active lifestyle in youth and at midlife, this may increase their probability of enjoying both physically and cognitively vital years later in life.
These findings may have wide implications for preventive healthcare. If an individual adopts an active lifestyle in youth, at midlife, this may increase their probability of enjoying both physically and cognitively vital years later in life.
Midlife obesity, high systolic blood pressure, and high total cholesterol were all significant risk factors for dementia, each of them increasing the risk around two times.
It seems that physical activity had an even more pronounced effect among those with the susceptibility gene apoe4, the most important risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
This is the first study to show this long-term relationship between physical activity and dementia later in life.
This is the first study to show this long-term relation between physical activity and dementia later in life.
