Rural-urban and gender differences in metabolic syndrome in the aging population from southern India: Two parallel, prospective cohort studies.

The association of metabolic syndrome with cerebrovascular dysfunction is indeed highly significant since the role of vascular dysfunction being increasingly recognized in the pathogenesis of dementia. 10 In fact, emerging evidence from longitudinal studies suggests that midlife metabolic syndrome specifically increases the risk of subsequent cognitive decline. 11 , 12 It is known that South Asia

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