If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. According to a report presented during the American Academy of Neurology's 52nd Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, men who were overweight, had high blood pressure and high cholesterol when first examined around the age of 50 were more likely to suffer from vascular dementia in their late 70's.
Vascular dementia is characterized by memory loss and other declines in mental function.
It is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. However, if these findings are confirmed by other large studies, improving the risk factor levels in middle age may result in delaying the onset of vascular dementia in older age. The syndrome includes elevated blood glucose levels, blood pressure, body weight, and cholesterol and triglyceride levels. The data were adjusted for personal factors, such as age, education level and the number of years a subject had lived in Japan. The researchers determined that syndrome X in middle age increased the risk of vascular dementia in old age.