Brains of overweight people ‘ten years older’ than lean counterparts

“From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years their senior, according to new research.”

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Lisa Ronan, Aaron F. Alexander-Bloch, Konrad Wagstyl, Sadaf Farooqi, Carol Brayne, Lorraine K. Tyler, Paul C. Fletcher. Obesity associated with increased brain-age from mid-life. Neurobiology of Aging, 2016; DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.07.010