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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How could something that feels so good - a long night's sleep - have negative consequences? Unfortunately, that is one possibility that results of a new study suggest: Older adults who sleep nine or more hours each ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Elderly people who drink light to moderate amounts of alcohol are less likely to develop dementia than teetotallers, an Australian study shows. The study, led by Dr. Kaarin Anstey of the Center for Mental Health Research at the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults in developing countries who regularly eat fish seem to have a lower risk of dementia, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among nearly 15,000 older adults living in China, India or one of five ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High cholesterol levels in midlife -- even cholesterol levels considered only borderline elevated -- significantly increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease 30 years later, results of a large study indicate. "This is the first study, to our ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Doing crossword puzzles, reading, and playing cards daily may delay the rapid memory decline that occurs if people develop dementia, according to a U.S. study. Researchers from New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine spent five years ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the last two decades, most gender and age groups in Europe have shown little change in the rate of dementia, according to study findings presented Monday at the Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Having one or two alcoholic drinks per day may help prevent dementia in the elderly, according to study findings presented Monday at the Alzheimer's Association 2009 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Vienna, Austria. Too much alcohol ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Alzheimer's disease and milder forms of dementia are associated with an increased risk of death, but contrary to some earlier reports, the risks are similar for blacks and whites, according to findings in the Archives of Neurology. ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pictures beat words, at least when it comes to making advance care decisions. Older people who see a video of a person with advanced dementia, rather than hearing a verbal description, are more likely to say they ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have developed a checklist that can accurately predict whether a person over 65 is at high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease within six years. The checklist of risk factors like slowness of mind or movement predicted about ...