Still, people who are on the shorter side shouldn’t worry about their dementia risk based on their height alone, a neurologist advises.
While there are some known risk factors for developing dementia, such as genetics, there’s a lot experts still don’t know about why some people develop the disease. Now, a new study has found a surprising link between height in young adulthood and the risk of dementia.
Worth noting: The scientists aren’t sure how this applies to women, given that they only studied men. Previous studies also found that the link between height and dementia risk in women was inconclusive. “We cannot say for sure if our results apply to women,” senior author Merete Osler, a professor at the University of Copenhagen, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “But we find it likely that the mechanism described above would be the same for women.
Of course, height also has a strong genetic component, and it’s difficult to say that all shorter people have a higher risk of dementia, Douglas Scharre, MD, director of the Division of Cognitive Neurology Chief of Staff Elect at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. While he agrees with Jørgensen’s theory that early development may play a role in height and brain development, he’s hesitant to say that height is a major risk factor for dementia.
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