Considering that nearly 100 million Americans have either high or borderline cholesterol levels, this is a disturbing finding. Our study shows that even moderately high cholesterol levels in your 40s puts people at greater risk for Alzheimer s disease and vascular dementia decades later, Rachel Whitmer of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, California, said in a statement. People whose cholesterol was lower 200 to 239 had a 52 percent higher risk in old age than people with lower cholesterol levels, the team at the University of Kuopio in Finland and Kaiser Permanente s Division of Research reported. The study of nearly 10,000 people found that those with high cholesterol in their 40s a reading of 240 or higher had a 66 percent higher risk of Alzheimer s disease 40 years later. Firefighters stopped a fire only a few hundred yards (meters) from Lillooett, 100 kms southeast of Vancouver, by using a controlled burn to contain the 66 pc higher risk Dementia tied to cholesterol WASHINGTON, Aug 5, (RTRS): People who have even slightly elevated cholesterol when they are middle-aged have a higher risk of dementia later on, researchers reported on Tuesday. (AP) Canada calls for help Firefighters saved a western Canada town from a raging wildfire as they continued Wednesday to battle blazes that have forced more than 5,000 people to flee their homes in the region. Another 120 in nearby Brooksmere were also evacuated. In the town of Lillooet, 2,500 people were forced from their homes as a fire raged less than a mile away. Continued on H1N1 fears limit Hajj 43 more cases A controlled fire burns behind evacuated homes in an attempt to reduce the amount of fuel for a wildfire burning on Mount McLean in Lillooet, BC, on Aug 4. Google Voice employs Internet telephony technology to let users merge home, office and mobile phones into a single number. (AP) Continued on Google calls on soldiers SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 5, (AFP): Google on Tuesday set out to recruit US soldiers as users of its Voice online telephone service, promising it would help military families stay connected. Aquino was buried Wednesday evening inside a simple white-painted tomb next to her husband, Benigno Ninoy Aquino Jr., moral leadership. Many in the crowds flashed the L sign for laban, or fight, in Filipino an anti-dictatorship slogan and chanted Cory. The procession went from the Manila Cathedral on a 14-mile (22-kilometer) route jammed with Filipinos dressed in yellow the signature color of the 1986 prodemocracy uprising led by Aquino that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos. About 600 priests and nuns linked arms around the Aquino mausoleum at the Manila Memorial Park to keep back the crowd who followed the flatbed truck with her flag-draped coffin on its final, ninehour journey through the rain-soaked streets of the capital. Aquino s body made its final journey through the Philippine capital Wednesday to be buried next to her assassinated husband in a culmination of grieving for the icon hailed as the example of Filipinos bid farewell MANILA, Philippines, Aug 5, (Agencies): Former Philippine president Corazon Cory Aquino was laid to rest Wednesday next to her assassinated husband after a funeral procession joined by hundreds of thousands of supporters who hailed her as an exemplar of moral leadership. Protesters chanted Death to the Dictator and anti- Ahmadinejad slogans, booing the security forces as police Continued on Honor guards stand beside the casket of the late former Philippine president Corazon Aquino during her funeral march in Manila, Philippines on Aug 5. But prominent opposition leaders were absent from the ceremony, and outside a force of about 1,000 riot police and Basij volunteer Islamic militiamen used pepper spray on demonstrators who claim his election was rigged, witnesses said. Ahmadinejad pledged to resist oppressive powers, dismissed the US stance towards Iran and said his re-election heralds major change in Iran and the world. The 52-year-old hardliner took the oath of office for another four years at a ceremony in parliament after his landslide election victory in June that triggered the worst turmoil in the Islamic republic s history. 1 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Established in 1977 NO THURSDAY, AUG/ SHAAH 52 PAGES 150 FILS Tears in a sea of yellow icon Cory laid to rest US ready to talk Ahmadinejad in as police crack protest TEHRAN, Aug 5, (AFP): Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iranian president on Wednesday, vowing more defiance of the West at a ceremony boycotted by his rivals, as police in full riot gear broke up protests by opposition demonstrators.
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