Updated On: 21 December, 2024 04:54 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
The study, presented in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, showed that diabetes, stroke, cerebral small vessel disease, and inflammation were linked to brains with an older appearance

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Brains of people with high glucose levels and inflammation can age faster, increasing their risk of developing dementia, according to a study.
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden used an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to analyse brain images from 739 cognitively healthy people aged 70-years to explore the brain’s biological age.