Obesity subtly diminishes memory and other features of thinking and reasoning even among seemingly healthy people, an international team of scientists reports. At least some of these impairments appear reversible through weight loss. Researchers also report one likely mechanism for those cognitive deficits: damage to the wiring that links the brain’s information-processing regions.
A number of studies in recent years have shown that individuals with diseases linked to obesity, including cardiovascular disease, hypertension and type 2 diabetes, don’t score as well on cognitive tests as less hefty individuals do. In a study conducted at Kent State University researchers recruited 150 individuals weighing an average of 300 pounds for a series of cognitive tests. Individuals initially performed on the low end of the normal range for healthy individuals.
Tested again 12 weeks after bariatric surgery — when most had shed some 50 pounds — the lighter but still heavy patients scored substantially better. Study participants who didn’t have surgery — or lose weight — performed worse on the second test.
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