<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a19b5af-d779-4870-9d17-be3f37ebf707/B0E3E2D3-CCCD-4728-84E6-D70E68A859A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/111607" href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/111607" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailyexpress.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/111607"><DIV><P class="introcopy">Middle-aged people who live alone have double the risk of dementia compared with those who are married or have a partner, researchers have said.</p> </DIV> <DIV class="padding7north"> <P class="storycopy"><DIV>There is a "substantial" link between marital status and dementia and having a partner appears to offer protection against mental decline in later life, they said.</DIV><BR /><DIV>A study showed that people who live alone in middle-age and are widowed or divorced have the highest chances of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. </DIV><BR /><DIV>They are three times more likely to develop dementia, as are people who are single at middle-aged but also when they are older.</DIV></P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/111607">Researchers studied 1,449 people aged 50 on average and then again when they were between the ages of 65 and 79. They found that people living with a partner or married in mid-life were less likely than all other categories (single, separated or widowed) to have dementia in later life.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B0E3E2D3-CCCD-4728-84E6-D70E68A859A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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