Does metabolic syndrome affect cognitive abilities?

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study of US adolescents shows an association between metabolic syndrome and impairments in reading, attention, and working memory. Treatment can control and perhaps even reverse metabolic syndrome, which affects about 9 percent of teens in the US and 12 percent-44 percent of obese adolescents, and may help reduce the cognitive effects described in the study published in Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news