4 Your Health: Sniffing out the mortality

A sniff test may be able to indicate how long an older adult will live.
Senior citizens may soon get a smell test when they visit the doctor.
That’s because older adults with a poor sense of smell have an increased risk of early death. A new Michigan State University study looked at about 2,000 seniors who were asked to identify 12 common odors. People with a poor sense of smell, who were otherwise healthy, were almost 50 percent more likely to die within 10 years than those with a keen se