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August 9, 2012
In Today's Issue
- 1 Quick Technique To Burn More Fat
- What Your Walking Speeds Says About Dementia Risk...
- The "secret" to losing belly fat...
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What Your Walking Speeds Says About Dementia Risk...
Dear Reader,
A change in walking speed in later life might be a sign of the early stages of mild cognitive impairment, a type of dementia, according to a study appearing in the journal Neurology. Mild cognitive impairment, MCI for short, is the term used for the condition where there is trouble with memory, language, thinking or judgment that's severe enough to be noticed (by the patient and those around him/her), but not so troubling as to interfere with daily living.
While people with mild cognitive impairment have a higher risk for dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, not everyone who is diagnosed with MCI gets these conditions - some never get any worse, some may even get better over time.
The latest research on MCI included 93 subjects over 70 years old who all lived alone. Of the subjects 54 had no cognitive impairment at all, 31 had non-memory related mild cognitive impairment and 8 had memory related mild cognitive impairment. All the subjects were given thinking and memory tests and had their walking speed monitored in a rather unobtrusive, though remarkable manner.
The study used a new technology that involved installing infrared sensors in the hallway ceilings of subjects' homes to monitor walking speed over a period of three years. This monitoring method let the researchers get a better idea of how even the most subtle changes in speed might correlate with mild cognitive impairment.
Study subjects were placed in groups based on their walking speed - slow, moderate or fast determined by their average weekly walking speed and how much that speed changed over time. Those who had non-memory mild cognitive impairment were 9 times more likely to be slow walkers. What's more, the amount of fluctuation in walking speed was also linked to mild cognitive impairment.
More work needs to be done with larger groups of subjects to see if walking speed, or its fluctuations, might predict future memory and thinking problems in older people according to study author Hiroko Dodge, of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. The hope is that if dementia can be detected at its earliest stages, strategies can be developed to maintain independence, offer treatment and perhaps one day, keep the disease from happening at all. Ambitious but worthy all the same.
Mild cognitive impairment is that step between the normal forgetfulness that comes with aging, and something more serious. Some of the mental tasks you might have trouble with include...
- Doing more than one thing at the same time.
- Solving problems or making choices.
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What Your Walking Speeds Says About Dementia Risk... Continued...
- Forgetting events, or conversations, from the recent past.
- Needing longer to do more difficult mental actions.
You may reduce your risk of both mild cognitive impairment and dementia by not
smoking and being sure to control both high blood pressure and diabetes. Eating
a balanced, low fat diet and getting regular exercise (including mental exercise
and socialization) may also bring down your risk.
The research on walking speed and mild cognitive impairment was supported by
both the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Intel Corporation. The good
news is that MCI is an active area of research interest, though as yet the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration has approved no treatments or drugs for this condition.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=159197
Alzheimer's Association info on mild cognitive impairment:
http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_mild_cognitive_impairment.asp
Mayo Clinic info on fitness and walking:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/walking/HQ01612
Study abstract, Neurology, June 12, 2012, vol 78 no 24:
http://www.neurology.org/content/78/24/1946.abstract
News release, Neurology, embargoed until June 11, 2012:
http://www.aan.com/press/index.cfm?fuseaction=
release.view&release=1084
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