Word: dementia
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Last month that test was given for the first time to two young adults at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Both tested positive, and must now live with the grim certainty of developing the disease, which causes progressive dementia and loss of body control. And suddenly Nancy Wexler is no longer sure she wants to know her fate. "Before the test, you can always say, 'Well, it can't happen to me,' " says Wexler, who is president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. "After the test, if it's positive, you can't say that anymore...
...family members' feelings, had always been favored over her elder sister, she says, as the daughter who behaved best. When her parents became ill, she sold her house and moved with her husband and their kids into Mom and Dad's home to care for them. As Mom's dementia worsened, she often refused to take her pills. When Deborah insisted, Mom whined, "Deborah's being mean to me." No one in the family took it seriously except Deborah's elder sister. After years of staying in the background, she then began calling Mom every night, encouraging her to complain...
...around some extra pounds. To take just one example, a study published last week followed 10,000 patients in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Medical Group for more than 25 years and found that those who were either overweight or obese in midlife were significantly more likely to develop dementia later on. Other studies have established that the risks of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes all rise with increasing weight. "There's nothing about our paper that says obesity isn't a health issue," Flegal says...
Vitamin E was once thought by some to be the cure for nearly everything. Observational studies suggested that moderately high doses (400 International Units, or IUs) could prevent heart disease, cancer and dementia - and make your skin glow, too. But lately scientists, using more rigorous tests, have had trouble substantiating some of those benefits. Now comes what may be the crowning blow - at least with respect to staving off heart disease. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, found that taking 400 IUs of vitamin E each day did nothing...
Vitamin E was once thought by some to be the cure for nearly everything. Observational studies suggested that moderately high doses (400 International Units, or IUs) could prevent heart disease, cancer and dementia?and make your skin glow, too. But lately scientists, using more rigorous tests, have had trouble substantiating some of those benefits...