"US study of war veterans ties brain injury to dementia risk" July 19, 2011|By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press
PARIS - 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.
Closed-head, traumatic brain injuries are a legacy of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Body armor is helping troops survive bomb blasts, but the long-term effects of their head injuries are unknown.
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Other research found a possibly high rate of mild cognitive impairment, or “pre-Alzheimer’s,’’ in some retired pro football players, who take many hits to the head in their careers.
Ban football (suggest that and you make Americans mad (frown).
I'd be fine with football and all the attention it's given were the world not such a miserable place. That being the case, I'm not a big football fan even though I must tolerate it on a social level.
The studies, reported yesterday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in France, challenge the current view that only moderate or severe brain injuries predispose people to dementia....
That can get you into trouble, especially when you start implicating wars and football.
Troops need to prevent further harm, said Dr. David Cifu, national director of physical medicine and rehabilitation for the Veterans Health Administration.
“What the people who have had a head injury and read this should do is to exercise and eat right and take their medicines and take their aspirin and do meditation to reduce stress - reduce risk factors that are modifiable,’’ he said....
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Yeah, that will make the ringing in your head go away.
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Related: The Wars Will Make You Mad
And so will this:
"Suicide victims’ kin to get service letters" July 06, 2011|Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The White House says that families of service members who commit suicide are now getting condolence letters from the president just like families of troops who die in other ways....
You know what would console me? Getting all our kids the hell out of these occupations based on lies and for empire. When is enough enough? Coming up on 10 years of the physically impossible and what, almost eight years of Iraq?
Previously, the White House would send presidential condolences to the families of those who died either in combat or as a result of noncombat incidents in a war zone. Condolence letters were not sent to the families of those who commit suicide, either at home or at war.
Here is to the day when no more letters will need be sent.
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Related: How to Honor a Suicider
Btw, did the VICTIMS of our LIES ever get a LETTER? Have the millions of Iraqis and who-knows how many Afghans (and Pakistanis killed by missile strikes) gotten a condolence letter?
Also see:
Emotions surface as soldiers return
Afghan war soldiers greeted with hugs, kisses at Logan Airport
