Obesity and vascular risk factors at midlife and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease.

By Miia Kivipelto, T. Ngandu, Laura Fratiglioni, M. Viitanen, I. Kåreholt, Bengt Winblad, E. Helkala, J. Tuomilehto, Hilkka Soininen, A. Nissinen. Archives of Neurology, 2005

1,316 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/746d81514b0540f565b74db56525c5ed86b28c36

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Physiology

1. Y. Chida
2. M. Hamer
3. José A. Luchsinger

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Y. Chida
2. José A. Luchsinger

Citations in the corpus

• 2013 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures (2013, neutral): “These factors include smoking [29–31], obesity (especially in midlife) [32–37], diabetes mellitus [31,38–41], high cholesterol in midlife [34,42], and hypertension in midlife [34,37,43–45].”
• Midlife and late-life obesity and the risk of dementia: cardiovascular health study. (2009, background): “High BMI in middle age has been found to be associatedwithhigherdementiarisk.(13,14) HigherBMIatages 70, 75, and 79 years has also been found to predict dementia,(17) although there have been reports of no association,(16) of lower BMI related to higher AD risk,(15) and of a U-shaped relation betwee”
• Epidemiology of Alzheimer Disease (2012, neutral): “…et al. 2002, 2003; Gustafson et al. 2003; Bagger et al. 2004; Brubacher et al. 2004; Buchman et al. 2005; Goble 2005; Jeong et al. 2005; Kivipelto et al. 2005; Razay and Vreugdenhil 2005; Rosengren et al. 2005; Stewart et al. 2005; Tabet 2005; Whitmer et al. 2005a; Waldstein and Katzel…”
• Physical activity and risk of neurodegenerative disease: a systematic review of prospective evidence (2008, background): “Regular exercise is likely to promote vascular health by lowering blood pressure, lipids, obesity and inflammatory markers, and improving endothelial function, which are risk factors for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (Kivipelto et al. 2005 ; Rosendorff et al. 2007).”
• Human Health Risk Assessment for Aluminium, Aluminium Oxide, and Aluminium Hydroxide (2007, background): “Identification of specific environmental factors has been more elusive, but age, low-level education, head trauma, and vascular risk factors (including cardiovascular genetic susceptibility factors) are plausible candidates ( Bertram & Tanzi, 2005 ; De la Torre, 2002 ; Kivipelto et al, 2005 ; Lin”