Monday, July 18, 2011

Brain injury raises dementia risk, US study finds (AP)

Ryan Lamke posses for a photograph in Washington on Thursday,  July 14, 2011. Lamke was a corporal in the Marine Corps and served as an infantry assault man in Iraq. While in Fallujah, Iraq in 2005, he sustained traumatic brain injury, orthopedic injuries to his left arm and post traumatic stress disorder(.AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - A large study in older veterans raises fresh concern about mild brain injuries that hundreds of thousands of troops have suffered from explosions in recent wars. Even concussions seem to raise the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other dementia later in life, researchers found.


Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110718/ap_on_sc/eu_med_alzheimer_s_veterans

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