2024 heart disease and stroke statistics: a report of US and global data from the American Heart Association

SS Martin, AW Aday, ZI Almarzooq, CAM Anderson… - Circulation, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: The American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National
Institutes of Health, annually reports the most up-to-date statistics related to heart disease …

Association between metabolic syndrome and risk of incident dementia in UK Biobank

D Qureshi, J Collister, NE Allen, E Kuźma… - Alzheimer's & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION The association between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and incident
dementia remains inconclusive. METHODS In 176,249 dementia‐free UK Biobank …

Trends in all-cause and cause-specific mortality by BMI levels in England, 2004–2019: a population-based primary care records study

MK Sophiea, F Zaccardi, YJ Cheng… - The Lancet Regional …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background In the UK, obesity rates are rising concurrently with declining mortality rates.
Yet, there is limited research on the shifts of mortality trends and the impact of obesity …

Body weight in neurological and psychiatric disorders: a large prospective cohort study

RZ Wang, Y He, YT Deng, HF Wang, Y Zhang… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
There is increasing attention on the associations between body weight and several
neurological and psychiatric disorders. Using a total of 438,483 participants from the UK …

Relationship between cognitive function and weight-adjusted waist index in people≥ 60 years old in NHANES 2011–2014

X Wang, H Feng, X Xu, J Liu, X Han - Aging clinical and experimental …, 2024 - Springer
Background Widespread attention has been given to the detrimental effects of obesity on
cognitive function. However, there is no evidence on the connection between low cognitive …

Physical frailty, genetic predisposition, and incident dementia: a large prospective cohort study

PY Gao, LZ Ma, XJ Wang, BS Wu, YM Huang… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Physical frailty and genetic factors are both risk factors for increased dementia; nevertheless,
the joint effect remains unclear. This study aimed to investigated the long-term relationship …

The association between atrial fibrillation and dementia: A UK linked electronic health records cohort study

K Brooks, H Yoshimura… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background We investigated the association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and dementia,
and its subtypes (vascular‐VaD, Alzheimer, mixed and rare dementia), and identified …

Addressing the global obesity burden: a gender-responsive approach to changing food environments is needed

BL McKenzie, AC Pinho-Gomes… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Obesity is a leading cause of death and disability globally. There is a higher proportion of
women living with obesity than men, with differences in prevalence rates between women …

Dissecting unique and common variance across body and brain health indicators using age prediction

D Beck, AMG de Lange, TP Gurholt… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ageing is a heterogeneous multisystem process involving different rates of decline in
physiological integrity across biological systems. The current study dissects the unique and …

Sex matters in the association between cardiovascular health and incident dementia: evidence from real world data

A Ponjoan, J Blanch, E Fages-Masmiquel… - Alzheimer's Research & …, 2024 - Springer
Background Cardiovascular health has been associated with dementia onset, but little is
known about the variation of such association by sex and age considering dementia …