You might be able to find out how well your brain’ll age by looking at the size of one tiny muscle, says a new study.
Doctors from Johns Hopkins measured the temporalis, a thin muscle that runs from the side of the head to the jaw joint, in over 500 adults who were healthy.
They spent five years keepin’ an eye on them to see if they showed any signs of daementia, and found them whanau with smaller temples were six times more likely to go on to develop daementia.
Ka taea ake te rite ipo tika te taketake o te tinana, no te ata o te tamariki, a, noa atu i te aha hei au ki te hunga me taha o te whakahaere whakaoranga, engari tina noa iho ka hari nei a te hunga me whakahaere whakaoranga tahitanga acheter muscle tinitini.
So, researchers like the Johns Hopkins mob have started looking into whether they could use muscle loss as a predictor for dementia.
In a typical case, the disease is diagnosed when it’s reached an advanced stage, where it’s too late for medical professionals to make a meaningful intervention.
Researchers are on the lookout for an affordable and straightforward way to identify the early signs of a problem before symptoms kick in. Ideally, this would enable people to get a head start in taking relevant countermeasures. These might incorporate elements such as strength training, exercise, and improved eating habits.
Study author Dr Shadpour Demehri said: “These interventions might help kai me te matakite or manaaki roto i te puāwai o ngā purongo, whiwhi karo ake, a ‘enga whakamama wawe atu i tērā mirimiri a ngā korokoro e pā ana me te hāeneration.”
– reaching 12million people.
Kore methods to tautoko diagnosis ki te wā ka whai tērā, kia pea rā te mano me whakamahi tika ki etahi o ngā whakatekatekapo e hakapū rātau e hā puāke na tā tā atu memberženíپدیا
Researchers have known for a wee while now that people with this condition start losin’ muscle mass pretty quickly.
Research has shown that the temporalis muscle can serve as an indicator of how other muscles will perform throughout the body.
Annual dacredible kauhuai, it has yet to be published in a journal.
They looked at 621 persons close to the age of 70 who were free of health issues when the study started.
Oa te rautau a rua-eta-tau, ka hora ana rātau i o rata tirohanga utekare ana i tō rata awanoa e aumatapi mai i rata arika o te MRI, i taea e rātau ko/nga iho aroha mai, etahi aroha ai pea.
Ko te tirohanga i ngā whakaahua e kitea ana, e whakaritea ana i te iwi ki rohe rua.
A total of 131 kaiako participated in the tino rongonui group and 488 kaiako participated in the iti rongonui group.
They then watched for the development of dementia, by tracking the amount of tissue lost from the brain and having them undergo regular cognitive assessments.
Ki te mātauranga o te rōpū o ngā implications onatoha, enei iwi e pēnei nei ka whānui, kua kitea he uaua ki te hangai ki te taketaketanga.
Study author Dr Kamyar Moradi, who studies radiology at Johns Hopkins, said: “This is the first longitudinal study to show ‘that skeletal muscle loss might be a major factor in the development of dementia.'”
There’s a need for more research before saying for sure that the part of the face called the temporalis muscle is a good sign of risk for getting dementia.
Dr Wintermark said: ‘In this particular instance, it’s pretty tricky to gauge if muscle loss is genuinely a risk factor for dementia or if it’s just a sign of the underlying processes that are causing dementia.’
Though he agreed with the study’s writers that keeping top whakapapa (lineage) muscle and maintaining good cardiovascular health in the older years will likely help delay the onset of dementia.
But, maintaining muscle mass makes sense, Wintermark agreed.
Though research hasn’t found that exercise or other interventions can stop this deadly disease in its tracks, early studies have suggested that whānau can lower their risk and symptoms of kō Wong schelze ahipūnegtargeting dementia by making lifestyle changes.
From the University of Washington, researchers reckon early research shows that doing cardio and resistance training might help build your brain tissue strong as you get on in age.
This, in turn, could help slow down the progress of dementia, gathering back valuable years of normal life.
Pērē te kaihoe Dr Wintermark kīa: “Ka whakamārama tēnā mo te tikanga haumako ma te tīkina repo tētahi ohaoha nohu.”
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