Geriatrics
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Mild cognitive impairment symptom mimics common before Alzheimer’s diagnosis
Major finding: The percentage of AD patients, compared with controls, who had a diagnosis of MCI at 36 months before AD diagnosis to 6 months...
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Diabetes morbidity varies with patient age, disease duration
Major finding: The rate of serious hypoglycemic events per 1,000 person-years rose from 3.0 in the youngest patients with the shortest duration of...
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Surgery may benefit elderly women with endometrial cancer
Major finding: Elderly women who had surgery for endometrial cancer lived about 1 year longer than those who did not have surgery.Data source: A...
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With tamsulosin, don’t forget the dip
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Cognitive impairment at baseline linked to poorer bariatric surgery outcomes
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Subjective memory complaints predict clinical impairment
Major finding: The risk of a clinical impairment was significantly increased by an older age at baseline (HR, 1.12 for every 1-year increment);...
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Walking program eased chemo-related joint pain
Major finding: After 6 weeks in a low-impact walking program, patients experienced improvements from baseline on the visual analog scale (VAS) for...
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Cholinesterase inhibitors most effective in mild Alzheimer’s
Major finding: After 3 years on cholinesterase inhibitors, patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease had a mean decline of 6.1 points on the...
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Good news: ‘fibrofog’ doesn’t portend Alzheimer’s
Major finding: Fibromyalgia patients who had recent onset of the constellation of cognitive dysfunction complaints known as fibrofog did not score...
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Practice tips for opioid prescribing
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Memantine helped to delay driving impairment in early Alzheimer’s
Major finding: In terms of driving ability, 100% of patients in the memantine group remained the same or improved, compared with 75% of those in...