Alzheimer's linked to obesityScientists have linked diseases like Alzheimer's and kidney failure to obesity. Being overweight already exacerbates health problems heart disease and diabetes, but now another link has been made between poor health and obesity.Scientists at the University of California and the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia studied data collected from over 32,000 people over a period of 26 years. They found that those who were obese were up to seven times more likely to develop kidney failure, or end-stage renal disease, than those who were of a normal weight. A "strong correlation" between obesity and the tendency to develop Alzheimer's was also discovered. The fatter the patient, the higher the levels of beta-amyloid, a sticky protein that builds up in the brain as a precursor to the disease, the research found. Dr Sam Gandy of Thomas Jefferson University announced: "Ours is one of the first attempts to try to find out on both the pathological and the molecular levels how obesity was increasing the risk of Alzheimer's."
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