Yates’ et al.,, review implicated mets in ischemic stroke, white matter alterations and altered brain metabolism. In their review, most studies found associations between mets and cognitive dysfunction with adults having multiple cognitive domains affected while adolescents were mostly in executive functioning. In a selected review, Yates, Sweat and Convit, describe the literature on the impact of mets on brain and cognition in adults and adolescents. Among the biochemical conditions may include abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high serum triglyceride and low high density lipoprotein (HDL) levels. Metabolic syndrome (mets) is a cluster of biochemical and physiological conditions associated with the development of cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Interest on how to promote healthy cognition as people age has been major concern to health care. The variables measured were not significant predictors of SDMT as a measure of processing speed while they to significant extent predicted processing speed when DST was used.Ĭognitive health among mid and late adult population is very important for their overall wellbeing and adjustment. Equally, mixed findings were got on processing speed. The results show the BMI, weight and waist circumference as predictors of general cognition, but the blood pressure and height were not significant predictors. Gender, occupation and education were included as demographic factors assessed in the study. The anthropometric measures assessed were the body mass index (BMI), height, weight and waist circumference while the Mets assessed were blood sugar level and total cholesterol and blood pressure. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Symbol Digit Modality Test (SDMT) and Digit Symbol Test (DST) were used to assess the participants’ cognition. Their age range were between 50 – 70 years with a mean age of 57.48 and SD age of 5.48. Our participants were 172 middle aged adults from a rural community in Anambra state Nigeria. Our study was to contribute to this area of science with African population, hence we investigated the roles of demographics, anthropometry and metabolic syndrome (Mets) on cognition in mid adults from rural part of Nigeria. However, there are very limited studies on this area in Nigeria and some parts of Africa. There is increased interest in cognitive aging among experts in brain sciences and gerontology as a result of improvement in health sciences leading to longeveity.
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