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Brain scans find abnormalities more common
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 10/31/2007 10:49:28 PM MDT
ATLANTA — One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don't know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon. It's not clear how alarming this is. Most of the abnormalities hadn't caused any symptoms, though some were potentially life-threatening.
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Read the research behind this story in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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