Obesity Causally Linked to Vascular Dementia

Obesity does not just raise your risk of dementia. It causes it. That distinction matters enormously.

As a medical school professor, I have watched this debate for years. Correlation or causation? A Mendelian randomization study from Copenhagen finally gives us the answer.

By using genetic variants as natural experiments -- mimicking a randomized controlled tri... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41568975/

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