Increases in Heart Disease Risk Factors May Decrease Brain Function

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Brain function in adults as young as 35 may decline as their heart disease risk factors increase, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.

"Young adults may think the consequences of smoking or being overweight are years down the road, but they aren't," said Hanneke Joosten, M.D., lead author and nephrology fellow at the University Medical Center in Groningen, The Netherlands.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130502185421.htm
 
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