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Medical Notes: Week of January 13, 2019

The number of people with dementia around the world has more than doubled since the 1990s. The effects of air pollution on city dwellers. And finally, studies proving that it doesn’t take long to believe your own lies.

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Published: January 13, 2019 by RHJ Producer

It’s well known that the number of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is rising… but the speed of the increase is stunning researchers. A study in the journal Lancet Neurology finds that the number of people with dementia around the world has more than doubled since 1990. Researchers estimate that within about 30 years… more than 100 million people will be affected with dementia.

Air pollution is bad for your health… but researchers haven’t been able to quantify just how bad until now. A Danish study in the journal Environment International used advanced models to simulate the effects of pollution on large populations. It shows that cutting city pollution to the level found in the country could increase the lifespan of the average urban dweller by one full year.

And finally… it doesn’t take long to believe your own lies. And the older you are, the less time it takes. A study in the journal Brain and Cognition used EEG’s to monitor brain activity of people purposely telling lies… then telling the truth to the same questions 45 minutes later. Researchers found that people over 60 are much more likely than young people to accept as the truth a lie they had told less than an hour earlier. Apparently, scientists say, telling a lie scrambles the memory so people ultimately accept it as what really happened.

Program #: 19-02Segment Type: Medical NotesTopics: Aging and the Elderly| Biology| Environmental Science and Climate Change| Life Expectancy/Lifespan| Medical Research| News and Headlines| Research and Clinical Trials| TechnologyMedical Conditions: Alzheimer's Disease and DementiaMedical Journals: The Lancet| The Lancet NeurologyProducers: Jason Dickey
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