Association between Visceral Fat Content and Obesity-Related Indicators with Cognitive Impairment after Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Yuchen Wang, Xutong Zhu, Xin Zhang · 2024

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Yuchen Wang and co-authors probe whether belly fat and body size track thinking loss after a brain bleed. Intracerebral hemorrhage leaves many survivors with lasting cognitive harm. Fat measures are cheap and routine, so any link could flag patients for early brain checks.

The study takes three hundred eighty-eight bleed patients at one neurosurgery ward. Waist, weight ratios, and scan-based visceral fat are set beside two thinking tests, one early and one at six months. Oddly, the impaired group ran leaner on the classic size gauges. Heavier patients scored better on the early test than normal-weight peers. A fat hormone, adiponectin, joins the marker panel. Layered models sort which gauges hold solo links to later thinking. The results hint that post-bleed brains may suffer more in lean bodies.

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CREATORYuchen Wang, Xutong Zhu, Xin Zhang
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE39 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11636545

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