Geriatrics
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New drug matched donepezil’s efficacy in mild to moderate Alzheimer’s
Major finding: Donepezil users performed the best on the 11-item ADAS-Cog total score, with a statistically significant 1.4-point increase.
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Higher glucose linked to increased dementia risk
Major Finding: The adjusted hazard ratio for dementia was 1.18 in subjects without diabetes with an average glucose level of 115 mg/dL in the...
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Learning genetic risk for Alzheimer’s may not be so distressing
Major finding: Patients who were homozygous for the apolipoprotein E epsilon-4 allele more likely than heterozygotes and noncarriers to report...
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Aerobic exercise boosts brain power in mild cognitive impairment
Major finding: Individuals who performed aerobic exercises had a significant increase of about 2 points from baseline on a composite measure of...
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Glucose, insulin measures unrelated to AD pathology
Major finding: There were no significant differences in mean nondementia/dementia values for fasting glucose (100/98 mg/dL), fasting insulin (9.6/...
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Loss of central vision
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Painful nail with longitudinal erythronychia
The nature of this patient’s pain and her sensitivity to cold helped us to zero in on a diagnosis.
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Brain atrophy rate may predict later cognitive decline
Major finding: For patients with mild cognitive impairment, every 1% increase in the rate of whole brain atrophy during a single year was...
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Food for thought: DASH diet slowed cognitive decline
Major finding: Closer adherence to the components of the DASH diet was significantly associated with a slower rate of cognitive decline.Data...
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Vitamin D deficiency in elderly linked to functional limitations
Major finding: Older adults with vitamin D deficiency had about a twofold increase in the risk of functional limitations.Data source: Two cohorts...
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Fracture risk varied by renal function equations
Major finding: Fracture risk doubled in women with mild renal dysfunction as assessed by the Cockroft-Gault equation but not when renal function...