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Metabolic syndrome and adiposity: Risk factors for decreased myelin in cognitively healthy adults.

ABSTRACT: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of conditions that affects ∼25% of the global population, including excess adiposity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and elevated blood pressure. MetS is one of major risk factors not only for chronic diseases, but also for dementia and cognitive dysfunction, although the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. White matter is of particular interest in the context of MetS due to the metabolic vulnerability of myelin maintenance, and the accumulating evidence for the importance of the white matter in the pathophysiology of dementia. Therefore, we investigated the associations of MetS risk score and adiposity (combined body mass index and waist circumference) with myelin water fraction measured with myelin water imaging. In 90 cognitively and neurologically healthy adults (20-79 years), we found that both high MetS risk score and adiposity were correlated with lower myelin water fraction in late-myelinating prefrontal and associative fibers, controlling for age, sex, race, ethnicity, education and income. Our findings call for randomized clinical trials to establish causality between MetS, adiposity, and myelin content, and to explore the potential of weight loss and visceral adiposity reduction as means to support maintenance of myelin integrity throughout adulthood, which could open new avenues for prevention or treatment of cognitive decline and dementia.

SUBMITTER: Burzynska AZ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10757180 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Metabolic syndrome and adiposity: Risk factors for decreased myelin in cognitively healthy adults.

Burzynska Agnieszka Z AZ Anderson Charles C Arciniegas David B DB Calhoun Vince V Choi In-Young IY Colmenares Andrea Mendez AM Hiner Grace G Kramer Arthur F AF Li Kaigang K Lee Jongho J Lee Phil P Oh Se-Hong SH Umland Samantha S Thomas Michael L ML

Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior 20230819

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of conditions that affects ∼25% of the global population, including excess adiposity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and elevated blood pressure. MetS is one of major risk factors not only for chronic diseases, but also for dementia and cognitive dysfunction, although the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. White matter is of particular interest in the context of MetS due to the metabolic vulnerability of myelin maintenance, and the accumulating e ...[more]

PMID: 38162292

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