Does a woman’s visibly losing weight indicate an impending dementia? If not in all cases, yes, it does for many!
The link between dementia and weight loss in women has been popularly noticed, but a decrease in weight being a harbinger to the loss of cognitive function due to changes in the brain has been recently observed by a study.
Alarmingly, women can begin losing weight at least a decade before developing dementia or the disease is diagnosed! Many women have been found to develop dementia 20 years later than when she significantly started losing weight.
The loss of weight in such early stages - as you can consider it — of dementia, may be due to people’s tendency of developing apathy, a loss of initiative as well as a loss in the sense of smell.
But, due to difference in hormones, unlike women, men do not seem to lose weight in the years before developing or the diagnosis of dementia.
Though, this new study — in contrary to earlier suggestions that mid-aged obesity may risk dementia — may kick up new sand of controversy, its ‘early stage-symptom’ finding may eventually be of great help in finding preventive, if not curative, solutions.
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