{"id":27522,"date":"2017-07-03T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=27522"},"modified":"2017-07-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T06:30:00","slug":"walking-slowly-may-indicator-dementia-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/walking-slowly-may-indicator-dementia-older-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Slowly May Be An Indicator Of Dementia In Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27523 size-full\" title=\"Walking Slowly May Be An Indicator Of Dementia In Older Adults\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rsz_shutterstock_140852236.jpg\" alt=\"Walking Slowly May Be An Indicator Of Dementia In Older Adults\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Slow walking in older adults may be an early indicator of dementia, study suggests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Researchers studied about 175 older adults aged between 70 and 79. At the beginning of the study, the participants were all in good mental\u00a0health and had normal brain scans.<\/p>\n<p>-The participants walked an 18-foot stretch of hallway multiple times over 14 years while a research assistant timed them.<\/p>\n<p>-At the end of the study, researchers checked the participants again for their mental acuity and received brain scans.<\/p>\n<p>-Researchers were of the view that participants with a slowing gait and cognitive decline experienced shrinkage of their right hippocampus, the part of the brain that is vital for both memory and spatial orientation.<\/p>\n<p>-All the participants involved in the study slowed over time, but those who slowed by 0.1 seconds more per year than their peers were 47% more likely to develop cognitive impairment.<\/p>\n<p>-The findings\u00a0were the same even when the researchers took into account slowing due to muscle weakness, knee pain and diseases, including diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Neurology Journal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rsz_shutterstock_140852236.jpg\" alt=\"1mg\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[160,162],"class_list":["post-27522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mg-news","tag-neuro-cns","tag-neurologic-disorders"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Walking Slowly May Be An Indicator Of Dementia In Older Adults - Tata 1mg Capsules<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Slow walking in older adults may be an early indicator of dementia, study suggests. 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