Efforts of health experts to bring down the number of patients with dementia may face severe setback with England fast heading to be the fattest nation on the planet.
Experts estimate that if obesity goes on soaring like this, then around 2.5 million Britons would be suffering from dementia or other brain distorting diseases by 2051 because several studies have linked middle-age obesity to dementia in later life. Actually, obesity stirs up higher blood pressure and cholesterol and both these things are known to increase the chances of dementia by interrupting the blood supply to the brain. Confirming this fact, further Neil Hunt, chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society, said:
It was now unarguable that blood pressure, cholesterol levels and other factors associated with an increased risk of heart disease played an important role in the onset of dementia.
Keeping this fact in mind, it could be said that situation is bound to go from worse to worst, as an estimate states that in the coming few years, about 14 million of the British individuals, from the youngest to the oldest are likely to turn obese by 2010.
This would be a further blow to Britain’s health machinery, as already there are around 700,000 people with Alzheimer’s disease with number of people with dementia likely to touch 1.5 million marks in the next 40 years.
This would be a further blow to Britain’s health machinery, as already there are around 700,000 people with Alzheimer’s disease with number of people with dementia likely to touch 1.5 million marks in the next 40 years. If we look at this situation in wider aspect, then we could say that dementia situation is likely to take a serious turn around the globe in the coming years, which already costs around $315 billion worldwide annually with total number of people with dementia soars up to more than 29 million.
This is quite a serious issue, which needs to be addressed earnestly because threat of dementia is not the only one that swells with rise in obesity but many other problems like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and even cancer also get aggravated due to this.
Via: Daily Mail
