A new study found that a certain type of belly
fat may be linked to early stages of Alzheimer's disease
. Decades before symptoms even begin. The study found
people in their forties and fifties with bigger bellies or
what's called a visceral fat. That's that hidden deep
and wrapped around vital organs were most at risk.
These people had a higher amount of an abnormal protein
called amyloid in a part of the brain. One
of the hallmark signals of Alzheimer's the study, senior
author, Doctor Cyrus Roy at Washington University School of
Medicine said by identifying the link quote, there are
ways we can potentially intervene in this population. The
study was presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological
Society of North America yesterday.