Prolonged periods of inactivity in adults aged 60 and above puts them at higher risk of developing the condition.
Older adults who spend 10 or more hours a day sitting or being inactive may be at increased risk of developing dementia, research suggests.
Study author Gene Alexander, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona and Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre in the US, said: “We were surprised to find that the risk of dementia begins to rapidly increase after 10 hours spent sedentary each day, regardless of how the sedentary time was accumulated.
For the study, the researchers looked at data from more than 49,000 people aged 60 and above from the UK Biobank, an online database of medical and lifestyle records of half a million Britons. Compared to adults who spent around nine hours a day sitting down, those who were sedentary for 10 hours were 8% more likely to develop dementia and people who were sedentary for 12 hours were 63% more likely to develop the condition.
The research, which was an analysis of data from 14 different studies and involved more than 34,000 people aged 60 and above, showed that individuals with untreated high blood pressure had a 42% increased risk of dementia compared with healthy people and 26% increased risk compared with those who received treatment for the condition.
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