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Article: Exercise found to add blood vessels in brain
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 2, 2008
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By JOHN FAUBER
Chicago -- Exercise is known to help prevent cognitive decline
and maintain the brain as people age, and now researchers think they
know one reason why.
People who engaged in long-term, regular exercise had
substantially more small blood vessels in their brains and more
blood flow than people who performed little exercise over the years,
according to a study presented Monday.
"Exercise increases the number of blood vessels in other parts of
the body," said lead researcher Feraz Rahman of Jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia. "What we didn't know is that it also
affects the brain."
The researchers used magnetic resonance imaging and a new three-
dimensional computer ...