High fitness may slash dementia risk, study says!

Being physically fit is known to bring a range of health benefits — from staving off metabolic diseases to offering protection against heart disease. A new study may now have uncovered an additional advantage for women: a highly decreased risk of dementia.

Dementia, an umbrella term for a range of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by progressive memory loss and other cognitive impairments, affects approximately 50 millionpeople worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

This condition is most common among older adults, and a recent report suggests that more women live with Alzheimer’s disease — a form of dementia — globally than men.

Many risk factors are related to lifestyle, which means that by changing certain habits and leading a more healthful life, a person’s risk of dementia can be decreased.

A new study from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has now found that women who are very physically fit in middle age have an almost 90 percent decreased risk of being diagnosed with dementia later in life, unlike their moderately fit peers, who are more exposed to this condition.

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