Could this 1960 実験（する） 予報する whether people will get Alzheimer's: New 熟考する／考慮する finds that 実験（する）-takers with low 得点する／非難する／２０s have higher 危険 of developing dementia

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A 実験（する） given to hundreds of thousands of students, 含むing 激しく揺する 星／主役にするs Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, nearly 60 years ago could 持つ／拘留する the answers to whether a person will develop dementia.

研究員s at the Washington-based American 学校／設けるs for 研究, which 治めるd the 実験（する） to some 440,000 high school students across the US in 1960, have been 熟考する／考慮するing the teen's answers and believe they have 設立する a link to student's who 得点する／非難する／２０d low on the 実験（する） and Alzheimer's 病気.

によれば the Washington 地位，任命する, 研究員s compared results for more than 85,000 testers with their 2012/2013 Medicare （人命などを）奪う，主張するs and 支出s and 設立する that 警告 調印するs of memory loss may 現在の itself as 早期に as adolescence.?

The 熟考する／考慮する, published on September 7, looked at how students 得点する／非難する／２０d on 17 areas of cognitive ability such as clerical 技術s, language, math, abstract 推論する／理由ing and visual and spatial prowess. 研究員s say that those 十代の少年少女s who 得点する／非難する／２０d lower on the 実験（する） are more 傾向がある to developing Alzheimer's 病気 and 関係のある dementia in their 60s and 早期に 70s.?

研究員s believe a 実験（する） given to students in 1960 can tell whether they will develop Alzheimer's 病気. Students in a class are seen taking the 実験（する）, called 事業／計画（する） Talent?

Engineer John McMillan 作品 on the first machine built to 過程 十分な paper sheets, instead of punch cards, to collect data from the 事業／計画（する） Talent pool

The 熟考する／考慮する 設立する 特に that those who 得点する／非難する／２０d low on mechanical 推論する／理由ing a nd memory for words had a higher 危険 of dementia later in life. 研究員s 設立する that low-得点する／非難する／２０ing men were 17 per cent more likely to get dementia, while low-得点する／非難する／２０ing women were 16 per cent more likely.?

The 実験（する）, called 事業／計画（する） Talent, was 治めるd to high school kids from 1,353 public and parochial schools across the country. It was 基金d by the US 政府.

The teens had to answer questions about academics and general knowledge 同様に as health, their home lives, personality traits and their aspirations.?

によれば the 地位，任命する, one question quizzed students about the biblical 人物／姿／数字 Samson. Another asked students what two colors mixed together make chartreuse, while a third question asked students what a camper should do if he sees a garter snake.?

Joan Levin, who …に出席するd Parkville 上級の High School in Maryland, took the 実験（する） when she was 15. The 地位，任命する 報告（する）／憶測s that it took two-and-a-half days to 治める.?

Levin, now 73, recently received her results and 得点する／非難する／２０d over 75 per cent with very high 示すs on vocabulary, abstract reading and 言葉の memory. She had low 得点する／非難する／２０s in clerical 仕事s and （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する reading.?

Based on her 業績／成果, Levin is low-危険 for dementia but told the 地位，任命する that if she had done 貧しく on the 実験（する） she would still want to know.?

'I'm 肉親，親類d of a planner, and I look ahead,' she said. 'I'd want my daughter and her family to maybe have an idea of what to 推定する／予想する.'?

Joan Levin, 73, recently 設立する out her results and 得点する／非難する／２０d high on the 実験（する） meaning she is low-危険 for dementia?

激しく揺する 星／主役にするs Jim Morrison (left) and Janis Joplin (権利) also took the 実験（する）s as high schoolers?

Cliff Jacobs, who …に出席するd a high school in New Jersey when he took 実験（する）, said he would also want to know if he was at 危険 for dementia. Jacobs, 75, has not yet been told how he did.

'The 統計に基づく correlation is not one that will やむを得ず 適用する to you, but they can g ive you some probabilities,' he said. 'I guess basic human nature would be, 'Yeah, you'd probably want to know'.'

Joplin took the 実験（する） as a 上級の at?Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, Texas. Morrison took it as a junior at George Washington High School in Alexandria, Virginia.?

Susan Lapham, director of 事業／計画（する） Talent, told the 地位，任命する that the hope is the 実験（する） could help lower the number of Americans who develop dementia in the 未来.?

によれば the Alzheimer's 協会, 5.7million people in the country 現在／一般に have the 病気. That number is 推定する／予想するd to rise to 14million by 2050.?

'If 事業／計画（する） Talent can be for dementia what the Framingham 熟考する／考慮する was for heart 病気, it will make a difference in public health,' she said. 'It 示すs that we should be designing 介入s for kids in high school and maybe even earlier to maybe keep their brains active from a young age.'?