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Seniors / Aging News From Medical News Today Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:29:27 +0100 Older Women With High Triglyceride Levels At High Risk Of Stroke In a surprising finding with significant implications for older women, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and NYU School of Medicine have found that high levels of triglycerides (blood fats) are the strongest risk factor for the most common type of stroke in older women - more of a risk factor than elevated levels of total cholesterol or of... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST Green Tea Protects Against Functional Disability Linked To Aging Regular green tea drinkers have a lower risk of developing functional disability, researchers from Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Functional disability refers to problems with daily chores and activities, such as bathing or dressing... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:00 PST Insight Into Cell Aging Likely Following Discovery Of Extremely Long-Lived Proteins One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST Geriatric Patients At High Risk Of Vitamin D Deficiency The great majority of geriatric patients in a German rehabilitation hospital were found to have vitamin D deficiency. Stefan Schilling presents his study results in Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2012; 109[3]: 33-8)... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST When Caring For Older People, Dignity Counts Older people feel that their health problems pose a challenge to their sense of independence, dignity and identity and sometimes the health care they are given makes things worse. According to research funded by UK Research Councils' New Dynamics of Ageing programme (NDA), healthcare providers must avoid taking a 'blanket view' of how to help older people cope with the ageing process... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST Study Of Identical Twins Reveals Mechanisms Behind Aging In a recent study led by Uppsala University, the researchers compared the DNA of identical (monozygotic) twins of different age. They could show that structural modifications of the DNA, where large or small DNA segments change direction, are duplicated or completely lost are more common in older people. The results may in part explain why the immune system is impaired with age... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST Baby Boomers Getting More Sexually Transmitted Diseases Baby boomers in the leading three English-speaking economies, the USA, UK and Canada, are being diagnosed at progressively higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), according to a report written by researchers from King's College London, and Thomas' Hospital London, in the Student British Medical Journal. The authors Dr... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:00:00 PST Distinguishing Between The Forgetful And Those At Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease It can be difficult to distinguish between people with normal age-associated memory loss and those with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). However people with aMCI are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), and identification of these people would mean that they could begin treatment as early as possible... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST Link Between Insulin Resistance And Brain Health In Elderly New research from Uppsala University shows that reduced insulin sensitivity is linked to smaller brain size and deteriorated language skills in seniors. The findings are now published in the scientific journal Diabetes Care. The main hormonal function of insulin is to support the uptake and use of glucose in muscles and fat tissues... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:00 PST An Explanation For Why The Brain May Become More Reluctant To Function As We Grow Older New findings, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, reveal a novel mechanism through which the brain may become more reluctant to function as we grow older. It is not fully understood why the brain's cognitive functions such as memory and speech decline as we age... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST

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