SUBJ: Half of US adults have gum disease that causes atrial fibrillation
SUBtitle: Vaccinations significantly reduce the risk for dementia
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SHORT NOTES:
1..Half of US adults have gum disease that causes atrial fibrillation.
2..Vaccinations significantly reduce the risk for dementia.
3..Taking an omega-3 supplement is vital to maintaining your immune system as you age.
4..ViaOne system provides safe (no needle) access to the pericardium.
5..Long-lived whales and humans have specific post-translational modifications (PTMs) that may protect against age-related diseases (e.g. cancer).
6..Fruit is vital to cognitive function in healthy older adults.
LONG NOTES:
NPR-Half of US adults have gum disease, and gum disease causes atrial fibrillation, a serious form of heart disease.
Vaccinations significantly reduce the risk for dementia. Vaccination for Shingles results in substantial decrease in dementia. “Other studies have found decreased dementia rates after vaccination for influenza, Tdap, polio, hepatitis A and B, typhoid, rabies, and pneumonia (typically 20 to 30 percent reductions). Suspected mechanisms include (prevention of) reactivation of embryonic genes by inflamm-aging and viruses decades later. It is not known whether multiple types of vaccination are additive, but the Tang study found an additive effect of two shingles vaccine doses.”
Taking an omega-3 supplement is vital to maintaining your immune system as you age. Our immune systems weaken as we get older, making fewer cells that fight infection and help us recover from illness and injury. Scientists aren’t completely sure why. They may have a better idea now, however, thanks to a new study in GeroScience. “Immune cell changes occur during aging for a number of reasons, but we still don’t completely understand why we have fewer antibody-producing cells with age.“ ELOVL2 is a key enzyme necessary for synthesis of the omega−3 fatty acid DHA, one of the main components of all cell membranes,” Crews’ lab, in collaboration with researchers at UC Irvine, has found that decreased function of an enzyme called ELOVL2 (short for “elongation of very long chain fatty acids-like 2”) speeds up immune system changes associated with aging. ELOVL2 plays a critical role in synthesizing certain types of lipids (fatty compounds), and its abundance is known to decline with age. Inadequate ELOVL2 changes the balance of lipids in cells, impairing the development of B cells, the lymphocytes (white blood cells) responsible for making antibodies to fight off infection.
Safer cardiac treatment. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s CardioVia has just received U.S. FDA clearance for its ViaOne system. It provides safe (no needle) access to the pericardium – the thin sac protecting the heart where new minimally invasive treatments are having much success over conventional, risky, heart surgery.
Live long and prosper. Researchers from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University have analyzed the differences in protein sequences across mammals with varying lifespans. They discovered that long-lived whales and humans have specific post-translational modifications (PTMs) that may protect against age-related diseases (e.g. cancer).
Association of Vegetable and Fruit Consumption Patterns with Cognitive Function in Older People with Different BMI Ranges: Findings from China. Fruit is vital to cognitive function in healthy older adults. The correlation between vegetable and fruit consumption patterns and cognitive function varies among older adults with different BMIs. There were no statistically significant associations between vegetable and fruit consumption patterns and cognitive function in underweight and obese older adults. Among normal weight men, older adults in the V+/F- and V-/F- groups were more likely to have cognitive impairment compared with the V+/F+ group.
