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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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

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 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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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

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 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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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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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Stroke survivors have an 80% increased risk of dementia compared to people who've never suffered a stroke, a new study finds.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In middle-age men with high Alzheimer's dementia risk, higher pancreatic fat was linked with lower cognition and brain volumes. (MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Obesity) The Department of Justice.

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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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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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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A team of public health researchers at Ningxia Medical University, in China, has found, via analysis of health record data, that some regular coffee drinkers with high blood pressure may have a lower risk of developing dementia than people who do not drink coffee. Their study is published in Scientific Reports.

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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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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JUNE 26, 2024

Dementia risk factors associated with cardiovascular health may have increased over time compared to factors such as smoking and having less education, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

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Med Page Today

AUGUST 5, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Coffee and tea intake were associated with long-term cognitive changes in older adults, two prospective studies presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) suggested. Among 6,001.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Addressing heart health earlier in life may affect and even deter dementia risk later in life, according to research published by The American Heart Association Oct. 10 in Stroke.

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American Heart News - Heart News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Research Highlights: People diagnosed with coronary heart disease had a significantly increased risk of developing dementia later in life, according to an analysis of data for more than 430,000 people from the UK Biobank. Participants who had.

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NEJM Journal Watch - Cardiology

OCTOBER 9, 2024

After adjustment for known risk factors, ICAD was associated with elevated dementia risk at 5 years.

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American College of Cardiology

MARCH 27, 2024

What is the effect of antihypertensive drug treatment on the risk of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease among new users of antihypertensive medications?

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HCPLive

MAY 5, 2024

Devanand reviews lecanemab and the advent of blood biomarkers for dementia and Alzheimer's management at APA 2024.

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Med Page Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Healthier lifestyle behaviors in midlife were linked with better outcomes in people with genetic predisposition for age-related brain diseases, longitudinal data from the U.K. Biobank showed. Over about 12 years of follow-up.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

BackgroundThe association of age at coronary heart disease (CHD) onset with incident dementia remains unexplored. Information on the diagnosis of CHD and dementia was collected at baseline and follow‐ups. 1.38];P<0.001), and vascular dementia (HR, 1.22 [95% CI, 1.13–1.31];P<0.001). 1.31];P<0.001).

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