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Old 01-27-10, 06:24 AM
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Making this short.
I have my concerns...sure.
What happens if I lose my way home or start wandering away from family and friends.
I see the commercials on dementia / Alzheimer and the medication(s) presented in slowing it down.
Now there is a new study out by cardiologists saying more controlling of blood pressure will reduced the risks.
High blood pressure along with obesity/diabetes may trigger dementia.
From Univ. of Pittsburgh...
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In a flurry of new research, scientists scanned people's brains to show hypertension fuels a kind of scarring linked to later development of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Those scars can start building up in middle age, decades before memory problems will appear.
The evidence is strong enough that the National Institutes of Health soon will begin enrolling thousands of hypertension sufferers in a major study to see if aggressive treatment _ pushing blood pressure lower than currently recommended _ better protects not just their hearts but their brains.


Personally I don't think there is a sure fire control or prevention.
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I like that site, very informative, and still makes the identification that, hey, we're not there yet. These are things you CAN do, but there's no "magic solution" (direct quote) to it.

It's kind of uplifting to think of the things that are likely to be cured/eliminated in our lifetime.
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If anybody can cure my inevitable, genetic stupidity, I will be very happy.
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