Heart disease linked to dementia
23 July 2008
 A new study has linked heart disease with a decrease in mental cognitive processes similar to those in dementia. Researchers from University College London examined 5,837 middle-aged Whitehall civil servants and measured their verbal and mathematical reasoning together with short term memory.They found that men and women with a history of chronic heart disease (CHD) showed lower scores in reasoning, vocabulary and cognitive status.Men with CHD were also found to score lower than their female counterparts, with the researchers noting a "decrease of 30 per cent every five years since the diagnosis of CHD".Dr Singh-Manoux, senior researcher at University College, said: "There is an increasing consensus on this life-long view of dementia – that events happening in earlier life can have an impact on whether or not dementia develops in older age."Researchers from the University of Singapore recently found that people who drink up to three cups of tea daily are "half as likely" to develop dementia, the Daily Mail reported.  © Adfero Ltd
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