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Check it out in our link for today. Fortune talks about a study that tells you which jobs can help to keep dementia or Alzheimer’s away.
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As your belly grows, your brains shrinks!
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New research shows a way to keep your brain 10 years younger. It has to do with your weight. Apparently overweight people have more shrinkage of their brain than others.
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They put a prize on Alzheimer’s research
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The Alzheimer’s association is putting up $7 million to help speed up the Alzheimer’s research.
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Known as the Prevention of Dementia by Intensive Vascular Care (pre-DIVA), the results of a cluster-randomized clinical trial showed that while the intervention did not reduce incidence of all-cause dementia, disability, or mortality, the results “do not rule out clinically meaningful effects in people with untreated hypertension who are adherent to the intervention,”
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More men may have Alzheimer’s
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New research suggests that more men may actually have Alzheimer’s than previously thought.
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Confirmation of the smell test for Alzheimer’s
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Two studies released at an international Alzheimer’s meeting Tuesday suggest doctors may eventually be able to screen people for this form of dementia by testing the ability to identify familiar odors, like smoke, coffee and raspberry.
In both studies, people who were in their 60s and older took a standard odor detection test. And in both cases, those who did poorly on the test were more likely to already have — or go on to develop — problems with memory and thinking.
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