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About dementia Dementia is not a specific disease. It’s an overall term that describes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Vascular dementia, which occurs after…
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By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, April 5, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Yo-yo dieting — quickly losing weight only to promptly regain it — may raise the risk of heart problems, a new study suggests. People who experience regular weight fluctuations of 8 to 10 pounds are much more likely to suffer from heart disease,…
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(Reuters Health) – Young men who are overweight or obese have up to double the risk of normal-weight peers for developing liver disease later in life, a large study in Sweden suggests. If the young men also had type 2 diabetes, their risk of having liver disease by the time they reached middle age was…