article_snippet.sent: Study author, Professor Stuart Pocock, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said doctors and policymakers may have to re-think how to best identify those at high risk of dementia.
article_snippet.sent: Other experts said more research was needed, and the way GPs used to diagnose dementia may have skewed the results.
article_snippet.sent: Prof Tom Dening, Professor of Dementia Research, University of Nottingham, said limitations of the study included poor dementia diagnosis rates by GPs at the time.
article_snippet.sent: Prof Tom Dening, Professor of Dementia Research, University of Nottingham said 'It is plausible that faced with a grossly obese patient, the average GP may have concentrated on the obvious medical risks and paid less attention to the cognitive issues than the average GP might have done with a comparable patient of normal weight. '
article_snippet.sent: Or maybe the average GP GP didn't refer the average GP to a memory clinic but sent the average GP to see a gastroenterologist or diabetologist instead. '
article_snippet.sent: In other words, the study may be telling us something about the diagnostic practices of GPs, as much about the natural history of metabolic disease and dementia.'