- Malnutrition may drive the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, and the disease’s progression then increases malnutrition, according to a new study from China.
- The hope is that better addressing people’s nutritive needs will reduce the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
- Two diets were investigated in the study: the Mediterranean diet and the MIND diet.
A new study from China investigates the complicated, perhaps bidirectional, relationship between Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and malnutrition.
The study concluded that early identification and dietary intervention of people at nutritional risk or who are malnourished may reduce their chances of developing Alzheimer’s.
Once Alzheimer’s appears, individuals often experience an increasing degree of malnutrition as the disease progresses into a downward spiral as adequate nutrition becomes harder and harder to maintain.
As the world’s population ages, the rate of new cases of age-related dementia has declined in many countries, according to the
The Commission estimated that 12 modifiable factors account for 40% of dementias globally.
These include “less education, hypertension, hearing impairment, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, and low social contact.” The good news is that these are modifiable factors.
The new observational study involved 266 individuals in China. Of these, 73 people recruited from the general population were assessed as cognitively healthy. The…
Read the full article here