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About 52 percent of Americans say they would rather die than livewith a severe disability, according to a survey commissioned byDisaboom.com, a Web site to improve how people with disabilitieslive. The survey asked, "Which would you choose: Living with asevere disability that forever alters your ability to live anindependent life, or death?" According to the survey, 63 percent ofpeople age 35 to 44 chose death over severe disability, versus 50percent of people age 55 to 64 and 56 percent of those 65 andolder.
Sound may help limit bone breaks
Researchers are borrowing from the study of earthquakes andseismology to develop a monitoring system that uses sound waves tocheck for tiny cracks that form in bones and can lead to stressfractures. The technology could prove valuable in protectingsoldiers, athletes, dancers and the elderly from stress fracturesin their feet, legs and hips.
Memory loss, fatty diet are linked
Researchers from medical schools in South Carolina and Arizona havelinked memory loss to a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol,which in other studies has led to high obesity rates. This memoryloss is associated with inflammation in the brain. The studysuggests that as humans age, memory may be preserved and brainfunctions improved by restricting that type of diet.
Prehypertension predicts later woes
Prehypertension during young adulthood is common and is associatedwith coronary atherosclerosis, according to researchers from theUniversity of California, San Francisco. They analyzed bloodpressure measurements of 3,560 adults ages 18 to 30 over the courseof 20 years. Nearly 20 percent developed prehypertension (systolicblood pressure measurement of 120 to 139 mmHg, or diastolic bloodpressure 80 to 89 mmHg). Young adults with prehypertension weremore likely than those with lower pressure to have calcium in theircoronary arteries later in life. Coronary calcium is a marker ofatherosclerosis — commonly, hardening of the arteries —a predictor of heart attacks and strokes.
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