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http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-08-06/veterans-aging-study-trauma/57608072/1
It was a former soldier, younger than 40, with
brain lesions that first got a research team member thinking something
was terribly different about these veterans.
The
veteran came through in the summer of 2010, a few months after the
program was initiated, suffering from obesity, high blood pressure and
diabetes. Most striking were the magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans that looked more like they belonged to someone in their 70s, Harvard researcher Milberg recalls.
It was a former soldier, younger than 40, with
brain lesions that first got a research team member thinking something
was terribly different about these veterans.
The
veteran came through in the summer of 2010, a few months after the
program was initiated, suffering from obesity, high blood pressure and
diabetes. Most striking were the magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, scans that looked more like they belonged to someone in their 70s, Harvard researcher Milberg recalls.