Cognitive impairments in patients with overweight and obesity

Background. In modern society, the growth of overweight and obese population increase every year. This confirms status assigned to problem under consideration as a non-infectious epidemic 21st century. At same time, amount scientific information about influence excess weight on various aspects human life is actively increasing. undoubtedly requires systematic generalization available data. Aims. The presented literature review devoted analysis research specificity cognitive impairment in people. Materials methods. Information search was carried out using Internet resources (PubMed, Web Science, eLibrary.ru, frontiersin.org, sciencedirect. com, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov), sources were analyzed for period from 2001 2020 following keywords: obesity, overweight, functions, cognitions, impairments. Results. As result review, main directions relationship between well dysfunction identified. diametrically opposed opinions within framework each consecrated trend presented. According results identified areas, community most common point view presence connection obesity impairment. this connection, authors impairments associated with their mediating mechanisms. And also age study indicated. Conclusions. Despite fact that functions comprehensively studied, there shortage data state thinking, attention, praxis, gnosis, speech