PolyU research reveals fat distribution as key to brain health, with visceral fat accumulation significantly accelerating brain ageing and showing much stronger association than BMI (IMAGE)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

PolyU research reveals fat distribution as key to brain health, with visceral fat accumulation significantly accelerating brain ageing and showing much stronger association than BMI

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Led by Prof. Anqi Qiu, Chair Professor of Neuroinformatics of the PolyU Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Director of the Mental Health Research Centre and Global STEM Scholar, the PolyU research team conducted the world’s first large-scale multimodal study to systematically explore the correlation between regional adiposity, and brain structure, function and cognitive performance.

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