Elevated body mass index and maintenance of cognitive function in late life: exploring underlying neural mechanisms

Background: Obesity is associated with vascular risk factors that in turn, may increase dementia risk. However, higher body mass index (BMI) in late life may be neuroprotective. The possible neural mechanisms underlying the benefit of higher BMI on cognition in older adults are largely unknown. Thus...

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Autores principales: Hsu, Chun Liang, Voss, Michelle W., Best, John R., Handy, Todd C., Madden, Kenneth, Bolandzadeh, Niousha, Liu-Ambrose, Teresa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
Materias:
Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26347646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2015.00155

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26347646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2015.00155

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