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PLAQUE PRONE You thought chronic infections like sinusitis or bronchitis were punishment enough? Now a study suggests that people who get repeat infections have a threefold greater risk of developing artery-clogging plaque, making chronic infections a stronger risk factor than even high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol. Why? To fight infections, the body releases substances that may make arterial walls vulnerable to clogging...
...even prevented? That's what Alzheimer's experts are fervently hoping. Already, they observe, an estimated 20 million people are suffering from the disease worldwide--4 million in the U.S. alone. And as the population grows and as people live longer and longer, those numbers will explode--more than threefold by the year 2050, according to some estimates. Declares Bill Thies, the Alzheimer's Association's vice president of medical and scientific affairs: "What we are facing is an epidemic of major proportions...
...PILL Don't base your decision about whether to take birth-control pills solely on this finding, but an analysis of 40 years of data shows that taking low-dose estrogen formulations nearly doubles the odds of suffering a stroke. Worse, women on high-dose estrogen face a nearly threefold increased risk. A worry to be sure, but not a big one: the odds of a stroke among women of reproduction age are tiny to begin with--about...
...billion plan to add prescription drug benefits to Medicare, and he'll sign the Republicans' "marriage penalty" tax abolition, which would cost about $250 billion over the same 10-year period. Certainly there is extra money floating about these days - the new $1.9 trillion surplus figure is up almost threefold from a February estimate of $746 billion. Of course, the difference is 75 percent accounting. Revisions of average annual economic growth predictions, from 2.7 percent to 3 percent for each of the 10 years, beefed up the numbers by almost an even trillion. And the surplus is based, as usual...
...subsequent tooth loss. In fact, smokers who puff away on a pack a day are six times more likely than nonsmokers to develop periodontitis, or advanced gun disease. More moderate smokers are also at a high risk; as little as half a pack a day can mean a threefold increase in smokers? chances of developing the disease...