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Photo = Getty Image Bank A study in Japan found that people with fewer bowel movements have a higher risk of dementia (dementia).
On the 8th, the Mainichi Shimbun reported that as a result of a follow-up study of 40,000 people by a research team at the National Cancer Research Center in Japan, men who had bowel movements less than three times a week had a 1.8 times higher risk of dementia than men who had bowel movements every day. According to the report, women tended to have a 1.3-fold higher risk of dementia in the same case, and when looking at the condition of the stool, the survey subjects who responded “the stool is hard” were about 2.2 times more likely to be male than those who responded “normal stool”, and about 2.2 times more likely to be female. It was analyzed that the risk of dementia was 1.8 times higher.
The research team focused on the report that there was a lot of constipation among dementia patients, and surveyed about 19,000 men and about 23,000 women between the ages of 50 and 79 from 2000 to 2003 on the frequency and condition of bowel movements. Until then, the study was conducted by tracking the rate of dementia onset.
As a result of follow-up, 9.7% of men and 11.7% of women were diagnosed with dementia. Norie Sawada, director of research at the National Cancer Research Center in Japan, said, “If the mutation stays in the intestine for a long time, it affects the movement of bacteria in the intestine and increases the risk of dementia by causing systemic inflammation and oxidative stress.”
Lee Bo-bae, Hankyung.com guest reporter [email protected]
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