Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Nursing home admission predictable in middle-age

Nursing home admission predictable in middle-age - Yahoo! News (Reuters)

This is spooky.

I have to agree, though. It's pretty much a no-brainer that certain lifestyle habbits and conditions might be conducive to finding oneself in a nursing home someday. From the article:

"Even after other health factors were taken into consideration, the presence of modifiable lifestyle factors -- smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes, but not total cholesterol -- substantially increased the risk of nursing home placement."

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