The team, from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), has published the results in the journal Translational Psychiatry. They note that anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among young people in the US and has a mortality rate of 8-15%. Many people with anorexia view themselves as being overweight, even when they are underweight, […]
The study, conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), observed that older people who were considered cognitively normal and had a lower body mass index (BMI) had more widespread deposits of the beta-amyloid protein in the brain. Beta-amyloid is a protein that is the primary component of plaques characteristic of […]