Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Blood protein profiles predicted future dementia in healthy adults, a large longitudinal study showed. Blood samples from over 50,000 people in the U.K. Biobank showed that four proteins -- glial fibrillary acidic protein.

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Med Page Today

MAY 23, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Lifestyle and other dementia risk factors were linked with cognitive changes independently of genetic risks for Alzheimer's disease, a French prospective study found. Across nearly 5,200 people in three French cities, worse.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 9, 2024

More than heart disease or cancer, the risk of dementia often creates much greater anxiety in the patients I see. And given that dementia is routinely in the top 5 leading causes of death, this concern is dually warranted. But can dementia be prevented? 14 Ways To Prevent Dementia. 14 Ways To Prevent Dementia.

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Med Page Today

JUNE 7, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A quick cognitive assessment tool helped improve dementia-related care in primary care patients, a randomized controlled trial showed. Compared with standard care, the 5-Cog system tripled the odds that a patient would receive.

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Med Page Today

MARCH 7, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was tied to a decreased risk of dementia, data from the prospective Rotterdam Study showed. Over an average follow-up of 14.5 years, use of NSAIDs for 24 months.

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Med Page Today

JULY 31, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Eating two servings of processed red meat a week over decades raised the odds of subsequent dementia, a prospective study of 130,000 healthcare professionals showed. Over up to 43 years of follow-up, participants.

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Med Page Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Loneliness increased the risk for all-cause dementia, a meta-analysis that included more than 600,000 people showed. Feeling lonely was tied to a 31% higher risk of overall dementia (HR 1.306, 95% CI 1.197-1.426), according.

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Med Page Today

AUGUST 12, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- An anti-inflammatory diet was tied to a lower risk for dementia in people ages 60 and older with cardiometabolic diseases, U.K. Biobank data showed. Among people with cardiometabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 31, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A three-step process underscores new clinical practice guidelines for primary and specialty care clinicians to evaluate patients who may have cognitive impairment or dementia due to Alzheimer's or a related disease. In broad.

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Med Page Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Up to one in five prevalent dementia cases may be attributable to impaired vision, a cross-sectional analysis suggested. In a study of nearly 2,800 older Americans, the population attributable fraction (PAF) of prevalent dementia.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 26, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- Four new risk factors for young-onset dementia were identified in the prospective U.K. Biobank study. Orthostatic hypotension, vitamin D deficiency, high C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and social isolation emerged as new risk.

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Med Page Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease and dementia appeared to be partly offset by high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, U.K. Biobank data suggested. Overall, high cardiorespiratory fitness was associated with better global.

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Med Page Today

APRIL 25, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Overprescribing warning letters modestly cut the use of antipsychotic medications without apparent repercussion in people with dementia, a secondary analysis of a randomized trial indicated. Compared with primary care physicians.

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Med Page Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or related dementia was more common after falls than after other traumatic injuries, an analysis of Medicare claims data showed. The study assessed nearly 2.5 million older adults who had.

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Physiologically Speaking

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Exercise benefits on Alzheimer’s disease: State-of-the-science - ScienceDirect But could fitness also influence our risk for common diseases of aging like dementia and Alzheimer’s? And while lifestyle factors play a crucial role in mitigating the risk of dementia, our genetic makeup also plays a part. Moderate: 24.1–31.1

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Med Page Today

APRIL 26, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Mandating clinicians to report drivers with dementia may be associated with missed or delayed dementia diagnoses, a cross-sectional study of primary care providers suggested. Clinicians in states that required them to report.

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Science Daily - Stroke

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia.

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Med Page Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Frailty -- a measure of health deficits in multiple body systems -- was tied to future risk of dementia, longitudinal data from four cohorts showed. Across nearly 30,000 older adults in the U.S. and the U.K., frailty was.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- Sleep regularity in midlife and at older ages may be a novel dementia risk factor, data from 88,000 people in Great Britain suggested. Day-to-day consistency in sleep-wake patterns showed a U-shaped association with incident.

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Med Page Today

MARCH 19, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Changes in sleep patterns among cognitively unimpaired women in their 80s were associated with an increased risk of dementia, a longitudinal study showed. Compared with women who had stable sleep patterns, those who had increasing.

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Med Page Today

APRIL 17, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Use of antipsychotics in dementia patients was associated with an increased risk for a wider range of adverse outcomes than previously acknowledged, a population-based matched cohort study from the U.K. In the analysis.

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Med Page Today

JULY 31, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care has raised the number of modifiable risk factors definitively linked to cognitive loss to 14, based on research conducted since its last update.

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Med Page Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Blood biomarkers specific to Alzheimer's disease -- specifically, amyloid-beta 42/40 ratios and measures of phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181) -- had a relationship with subsequent dementia that started in.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 4, 2024

In a new study, hearing loss was significantly associated with a 7% higher risk of dementia, while hearing aids were shown to reduce such risks.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Antibiotic use didn't raise the risk of dementia in healthy older adults, a prospective study suggested. Over about 5 years of follow-up, antibiotic use was not tied to higher dementia incidence (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.84-1.25) 1.25) compared.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Older individuals with apparent skeletal muscle mass loss were at greater risk of developing dementia, researchers found. People with low temporalis muscle mass -- a set of jawbone muscles linked to changes in whole-body skeletal.

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HCPLive

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

HCPLive spoke with Sachs about his study on palliative care for dementia, which reduced ED visits but didnt significantly improve neuropsychiatric symptoms.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

JUNE 21, 2024

While previous studies suggested an association of the most common cerebral small-vessel disease with dementia risk, new research provides evidence of causal link, identifying it as a major vascular factor.

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HCPLive

APRIL 8, 2024

The study highlights how the experience of loneliness for care partners of people with dementia changes relationship roles throughout the dementia trajectory.

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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With an aging population and higher prevalence of dementia, there is a paucity of data regarding dementia patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery. We examined the nationwide trends and outcomes of cardiovas.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Diets higher in inflammatory foods were tied to an increased incidence of dementia in older adults, longitudinal data from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort showed. Over 13 years of follow-up, higher Dietary Inflammatory.

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HCPLive

APRIL 25, 2024

Chun spoke in this interview segment about more recommendations for internal medicine physicians to give older adults related to aging, dementia, and statin use.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 13, 2025

A study found many people with dementia live approximately 1 third of their remaining life expectancy in nursing homes.

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Med Page Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- After a certain threshold, cumulative opioid use was associated with higher dementia risk, a study of adults over age 60 in Denmark showed. In a nested case-control study, opioid use above 90 total standardized doses (TSDs.

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Science Daily - Stroke

JANUARY 30, 2025

Shorter protective caps on chromosomes called telomeres, a proposed marker of accelerated biological cell aging, may be associated with an increased risk of stroke, dementia and late-life depression, according to an analysis of more than 356,000 people in the United Kingdom.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 30, 2025

A study found palliative care for dementia did not improve neuropsychiatric symptoms but reduced emergency visits and hospitalizations over 2 years.

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HCPLive

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Nearly 19% of dementia cases were attributable to ≥1 vision impairment in a nationally representative sample of older US adults.

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