On 9 November, an international team of researchers from Sweden and China published an article on leisure activities as well as social integration and their potential influence on the risk of dementia associated to comorbid cardiometabolic diseases in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia. The researchers drew on data from the SNAC-K project, which is an ongoing study as part of the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care. The researchers investigated data from 2648 study participants out of which 1910 had no cardiometabolic disease, 576 had one, 145 two and 17 presented with three cardiometabolic diseases at the initial assessment. Looking at the correlations, the team found that people with cardiometabolic diseases (such as diabetes and stroke), especially when they had more than one, were also more likely to develop dementia. However, their findings also showed that leisure activities and social integration might mitigate this potential risk of developing dementia that seems to be associated with cardiometabolic diseases.
https://www.alzheimersanddementia.com/article/S1552-5260(19)35372-5/fulltext
