Letters to the EditorCOGNITIVE DEFICIENCY IN OBESITY INDEPENDENT OF SOCIAL ORIGIN
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Level of body fat relates to memory decline and interacts with age in its association with hippocampal and subcortical atrophy
2020, Neurobiology of AgingCitation Excerpt :No comparable effects were found for cholesterol, and the relations between brain volumes and body fat were not affected by cholesterol and BP. Indicators of body fat in previous literature have been found to be related to cognition through the whole life span, from childhood, through adolescence (Li et al., 2008; Mond et al., 2007), and into adulthood (Cournot et al., 2006; Gunstad et al., 2010; Sorensen et al., 1983), independent of socioeconomic status, depression, and cardiovascular risk factors. This is coinciding with our findings of a relation of body fat with memory, with no age interaction observed.
The effect of fat mass on educational attainment: Examining the sensitivity to different identification strategies
2012, Economics and Human BiologyCitation Excerpt :There are many other studies that examine the relationship between body weight and educational outcomes or IQ. Some examine the effects of education/IQ on body weight, whilst others explore the effect of body weight on education/IQ (see e.g. Sorensen et al., 1983; Li, 1995). Only few studies are prospective (see e.g. Lawlor et al. (2006) and references therein), but with most using a cross-sectional design, the direction of the estimated associations is unclear.
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