AAN: CV Risk Factors Also Linked to Cognitive Decline

Guess who is most likely to have cardiovascular risk factors. Hint: fatsos.

Middle-age men and women with cardiovascular risk factors like hypertension and high cholesterol are at risk not only for coronary heart disease, but also for later dementia, according to French researchers.

In a study of almost 5,000 people, an adjusted analysis found that each 10-point increment in risk on the Framingham General Cardiovascular Risk Profile was associated with poorer cognitive performance on tests that included thinking, memory, reasoning, phonemic and semantic fluency, and vocabulary (P<0.001 for all), reported Sara Kaffashian, MSc, and colleagues.

Clearly.