Tag: Dementia

Shorter leucocyte telomere length also associated with smaller total brain volume, white matter volume, hippocampus volume

Among patients with ADRD receiving care from a home health agency, antipsychotic use was tied to less improvement in activities of daily living

Significant, nonlinear association identified between time spent in sedentary behavior and incident dementia

Significant reductions were seen in dementia risk for rivaroxaban, apixaban, and dabigatran versus warfarin in network meta-analysis

Additionally, participation tied to greater retention of subsequent fluid intelligence

Score had strong discriminatory accuracy in U.K. Biobank test sample and Whitehall cohort, with AUCs of 0.80 and 0.77

Findings persisted across age, sex, and comorbidities

Divorce/separation less likely at later stages of dementia, more likely with more severe neuropsychiatric behavioral symptoms

Few older adults with MCI or mild dementia were eligible for lecanemab, aducanumab after applying clinical trial criteria

Findings seen especially for fine particulate matter from agriculture and wildfires