Deans' stroke musings: Level of fat within the body's muscle may lead to risk of cognitive decline while aging

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Level of fat within the body's muscle may lead to risk of cognitive decline while aging

What is your confidence level that your doctor has this equipment and the protocols to measure this and then the protocols to reduce muscle fat to healthy levels? I would say zero!

How is muscle fat composition measured?

A DXA or DEXA scan is the most accurate and advanced form of body composition analysis available. It uses x-ray technology to scan your body and provides a detailed assessment of how much muscle mass and fat mass you have (down to the pound), and exactly where fat and muscle is stored on your body.Mar 23, 2021

Level of fat within the body's muscle may lead to risk of cognitive decline while aging

New research reveals that the level of fat within the body's muscle-;or muscle adiposity-;may indicate a person's likelihood of experiencing cognitive decline as they age.

In the study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 5-year increase in fat stored in the thigh muscle was a risk factor for cognitive decline. This risk was independent of total weight, other fat deposits, and muscle characteristics (such as muscle strength or mass) and also independent of traditional dementia risk factors.

Investigators assessed muscle fat in 1,634 adults 69–79 years of age at years 1 and 6 and evaluated their cognitive function at years 1, 3, 5, 8, and 10. Increases in muscle adiposity from year 1 to year 6 were associated with faster and more cognitive decline over time. The findings were similar for Black and white men and women.

Our data suggest that muscle adiposity plays a unique role in cognitive decline, distinct from that of other types of fat or other muscle characteristics. If that is the case, then the next step is to understand how muscle fat and the brain 'talk' to each other, and whether reducing muscle adiposity can also reduce dementia risk."

Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH, Study Corresponding Author, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh

Source:

Wiley

Journal reference:

Rosano, C., et al. (2023) Increase in skeletal muscular adiposity and cognitive decline in a biracial cohort of older men and women. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18419.