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Reducing driver stress to increase safety DEARBORN, Mich. (UPI) -- The Ford Motor Co. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are working together to advance automotive technology to reduce driver stress. Ford and MIT officials say they are studying driver workload to identify new opportunities to use vehicle technologies to lower stress and consequently improve safety. In fact, the officials say the researchers are focusing on how the car can potentially enhance overall human wellness and become an oasis from stressful situations. Jeff Rupp, a Ford manager of active safety research, says the project will identify specific stress-inducing driving situations, monitor a driver's reaction to the situations using biometrics and evaluate methods to incorporate new stress-reducing features into the next generation of Ford products. "We strongly believe that driving can be made safer by reducing the stress load placed on a driver," Rupp said in a statement. "Through the use of our existing technologies such as Adaptive Cruise Control with Collision Warning ... our voice-activated communications system, we are proactively guiding drivers away from difficult situations. "The goal of this program is to take this one step further by creating the most comfortable driving environment possible so that our driver is always relaxed, calm and able to perform at peak performance." Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Hispanics more likely in bad nursing homes PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) -- More Hispanic senior citizens are living in nursing homes, but their care is worse than that of whites, U.S. researchers found. Study leader Mary Fennell, professor of sociology and community health at Brown University, found Hispanic elderly are more likely than whites to live in nursing homes of poor quality. Traditionally, Hispanic families has used formal long-term care services less frequently than any other U.S. ethnic group. In Hispanic households, elder care has traditionally been handled by adult daughters at home, but more and more young Hispanic women work outside the home. Some 4.5 million elderly Hispanics are expected to need care by 2010, Fennell said. From 2000-2005, the percent of Hispanic residents increased from 5 percent to 6.4 percent, but the percentage of non-Hispanic white residents dipped from just under 83 percent to 79.4 percent. Residents admitted to nursing homes have often already endured hospitalizations or a health issue that required expensive, high-level care, the study said. "People with resources can get into very good places or alternatives for nursing home care," Fennell said. "Everyone else is left with not-very-good facilities that are not performing well." The findings were published in the journal Health Affairs. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Obesity poses as great a threat as smoking NEW YORK (UPI) -- Obesity has become an equal, if not greater, contributor to illness and a shortened life as smoking, U.S. researchers found. Haomiao Jia and Dr. Erica I. Lubetkin of Columbia University and The City College of New York calculated that the quality adjusted life years lost due to obesity is now equal to, if not greater than, those lost due to smoking. The researchers used data from the 1993-2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which conducted interviews of more than 3.5 million individuals with annual interviews starting with 102,263 in 1993 and ending with 406,749 in 2008. From 1993-2008, the proportion of smokers among U.S. adults declined 18.5 percent and smoking-related, quality adjusted life years lost were relatively stable at 0.0438 quality adjusted life years lost per population. During this same period, the proportion of obese people increased 85 percent and this resulted in 0.0464 quality adjusted life years lost. Smoking had a bigger impact on deaths while obesity had a bigger impact on illness, the study found. The study is to be published in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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Boomers: Why getting buff becomes tough SAN ANTONIO (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher says age-related muscle loss is caused by free radical damage to muscle cell mitochondria. The mitochondria supply the cell with chemical energy and are involved in other important processes. Holly Van Remmen of the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio says this discovery, published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal, may make it possible for baby boomers to attack the atrophy process with drug therapies. "Age-related muscle atrophy in skeletal muscle is inevitable. However, we know it can be slowed down or delayed," Van Remmen says in a statement. "Our goal is to increase our understanding of the basic mechanisms underlying sarcopenia -- the loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs with aging -- to gain insight that will help us to discover therapeutic interventions to slow or limit this process." Van Remmen and colleagues used mice that were genetically manipulated to prevent them from having a protective anti-oxidant and as a result had very high levels of free radicals. These mice lose muscle mass and function at a much faster rate than normal mice. Copyright 2010 by United Press International
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