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Article: Obese people 'at greater Alzheimer's risk'.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- August 26, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): Here's some discouraging news for obese people: a new report has found that fat people are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer's.
In the current online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping, Paul Thompson, senior author and a UCLA professor of neurology, and lead author Cyrus A. Raji, a medical student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and colleagues compared the brains of people who were obese, overweight, and of normal weight, to see if they had differences in brain structure; that is, did their brains look equally healthy.
They found that obese people had 8 percent less brain ...
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