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1. www.eurekalert.org
www.eurekalert.org/pub_release - [Cached]Published on: 4/4/2008 Last Visited: 4/6/2008
Her co-authors include Drs. G. Webster Ross and Helen Petrovitch, who are both with the Pacific Health Research Institute, the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System and the University of Hawaii; Dr. Robert D. Abbott of the University of Virginia and Shiga University in Japan; and Dr. Richard B. Mailman, a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the UNC School of Medicine. -
2. || Impact
www.sundayobserver.lk/2007/02/ - [Cached]Published on: 1/1/2007 Last Visited: 2/18/2007
University of Virginia researcher Robert D. Abbott, PhD, and colleagues looked at elderly men ranging in age from 71 to 93.
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"Physically capable elderly men who walk more regularly are less likely to develop dementia," Abbott and colleagues write. -
3. Exercise seen to hold off dementia in aged - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - September 22, 2004
www.washtimes.com/national/200 - [Cached]Published on: 9/22/2004 Last Visited: 9/22/2004
Those in the former category were the "most sedentary" in the study, said Robert D. Abbott, professor of biostatistics at the University of Virginia and author of the study. "If I were sedentary, these results would be enough to make me consider becoming active.But, of course, elderly people should do this carefully and under the care of a physician," Mr. Abbott said. Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative condition affecting mostly the elderly.There is no cure and it affects 4.5 million Americans. "We worked with a sample of 2,257 men, all of whom were required to be physically capable.None used canes or walkers," Mr. Abbott said. During the course of a six-to-eight-year followup period, 158 cases of dementia were identified in the study population.Researchers found a "1.9-fold excess risk of total dementia" in men who walked less than a quarter of a mile per day, compared with those who walked more than two miles per day. Mr. Abbott said the findings in the University of Virginia study mirror those of an earlier study in New York.
