Your walking speed could indicate dementia, according to a study.
But not all signs of cognitive decline predict later dementia -- only 10% to 20% of people age 65 or older with mild cognitive impairment or MCI develop dementia over the next year, according to the."In many cases, the symptoms of MCI may stay the same or even improve," the institute states.
Now, a large, new study of nearly 17,000 adults over age 65 finds people who walk about 5% slower or more each year while also exhibiting signs of slower mental processing were most likely to develop dementia. The study was"These results highlight the importance of gait in dementia risk assessment," wrote corresponding author Taya Collyer, a research fellow at Peninsula Clinical School at Monash University in Victoria, Australia.
Twice every other year, subjects were also asked to walk 3 meters, or about 10 feet. The two results were then averaged to determine the person's typical gait. At the end of the study, researchers found the highest risk of dementia was for"dual decliners," or people who not only walked more sluggishly but also showed some signs of cognitive decline, said Dr. Joe Verghese, a professor of geriatrics and neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, who was not involved in the study.
"Furthermore, dual decliners had a higher risk of dementia than those with either gait or cognitive decline alone," Verghese wrote in an accompanying editorial published Tuesday in the JAMA journal.2020 meta-analysisYet despite those findings,"gait dysfunction has not been considered an early clinical feature in patients with Alzheimer's disease," Verghese wrote.There are things we can do as we age to reverse the brain shrinkage that comes along with typical aging.
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