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Study Reveals How Obesity Could Accelerate Aging in the Brain

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The findings also hint at a potential treatment to reverse cognitive decline in those with obesity.

We've all been warned that obesity can increase our risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. But, according to new research, it could be affecting our brain too.Obesity affects more than 40 percent of Americans, according to data taken from 2017 to 2020 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

'Obesity may cause the cells in blood vessels in the brain to age faster and reach senescence,' Sharon Negri, the study's first author and a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Stefano Tarantini, Ph.D., in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, said in a statement.

 

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