The world's first study of more than 1200 people demonstrates how youth fitness and obesity affect cognition in middle life Better physical test results are associated with better cognition later in life and may offer protection against dementia in later years, according to the world's first study
Researchers found that midlife scores on evaluations of processing speed, attentiveness, and overall cognitive function were higher in fit children.
Importantly, these results are unaffected by academic ability, socioeconomic status in childhood, or cigarette and alcohol use in middle age. This is the first significant study to examine the relationship between obesity and objectively measured fitness in childhood and cognition in middle age, with the theory that early activity levels, fitness, and metabolic health may protect against dementia in our older years. Over 1200 participants were followed from 1985, when they were between the ages of 7 and 15, to 2017–19.
According to Associate Professor Callisaya this is the first study demonstrating a relationship between phenotypic profiles of objectively measured fitness and obesity measures in childhood, with midlife cognition.
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