Dementia news: Sitting too long may increase a middle-aged person's risk

A study of over 45s found a link between the amount of time they spent watching TV or carrying out other sedentary tasks and changes in a brain area vital for memory. Those with couch potato lifestyles had less grey matter in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) – even if they went for regular brisk […]

REVEALED: One in 10 middle-aged men have an 'old heart'

Those found to have an “old” heart are at significantly greater risk of coronaries and strokes as well as conditions like dementia, chronic kidney disease and diabetes. Some 1.2 million people have been tested online with 11 per cent of 50-year-old men having a heart age of a 60-year-old. Associate Professor Jamie Waterall, of Public […]

Is Economic Despair What’s Killing Middle-Aged White Americans?

Two years ago, the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton published an alarming revelation: Middle-aged white Americans without a college degree were dying in greater numbers, even as people in other developed countries were living longer. The husband-and-wife team argued, in a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that these […]