http://news.yahoo.com/neuroticism-long-time-stress-linked-alzheimers-women-201745693.html
Women who feel anxious, moody
and distressed for significant amounts of time during middle age may be
at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life, a
new study suggests.
In the study,
researchers followed 800 women over 38 years. At the study's start,
their average age was 46. The researchers assessed the women's levels
of distress and neuroticism,
which is a personality trait that psychologists describe as the
tendency to feel negative emotions when you are threatened or
frustrated. The researchers also examined the women's memory abilities,
and looked at how extroverted or introverted they were.
During the study, 153 women developed some type of dementia, including 104 who developed Alzheimer's disease.
The researchers found that the women with the highest levels of
neuroticism who also experienced long-standing distress were twice as
likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as the women with the lowest
levels of neuroticism.
This is badly written, no way of even finding out where the study was published.
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