Geriatrics
Cohort Study: Association of cardiovascular risk trajectory with cognitive decline and incident dementia.
21 Jun, 2022 | 10:58h | UTCCommentary: Heart Risk Factors Can Be Recipe for Dementia – HealthDay
Related:
Genetic Risk, Midlife Life’s Simple 7, and Incident Dementia in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Commentary: Seven healthy habits linked to lower risk of dementia in those with genetic risk – American Academy of Neurology
Preventing dementia: what’s the evidence? – Evidently Cochrane
Commentary on Twitter
Study findings show that the longitudinal, cumulative trajectory of #cardiovascular risk is predictive of #dementia risk and associated with the emergence of memory decline. Read the article: https://t.co/CT1NQ63sXO #NeuroTwitter pic.twitter.com/KMGAPLQFe7
— Neurology Journal (@GreenJournal) May 17, 2022
Cohort Study: Cardiometabolic multimorbidity linked to accelerated cognitive decline and dementia progression.
21 Jun, 2022 | 10:59h | UTCNews Release: Diabetes and cardiovascular disease increase dementia risk – Karolinska Institutet
Related:
Genetic Risk, Midlife Life’s Simple 7, and Incident Dementia in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study – Neurology (link to abstract – $ for full-text) AND Commentary: Seven healthy habits linked to lower risk of dementia in those with genetic risk – American Academy of Neurology
Preventing dementia: what’s the evidence? – Evidently Cochrane
Associations of bilateral vestibulopathy with cognition in older adults matched with healthy controls for hearing status.
21 Jun, 2022 | 10:24h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
In this study, older adults with #bilateralvestibulopathy had worse #cognition than their matched control. These results support an association between vestibular loss and cognitive impairment, in particular #Alzheimerdisease. https://t.co/atHR8QlWD9
— JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (@JAMAOto) June 17, 2022
Opinion | Normalizing menopause – “Martha Hickey and colleagues argue that social and cultural attitudes contribute to the varied experience of menopause and that medicalization fuels negative perceptions”.
20 Jun, 2022 | 10:38h | UTCNormalizing menopause – The BMJ (free for a limited period)
News Release: Medicalizing menopause may be unhelpful for some women – British Medical Journal
Commentary: Menopause is not a disease. Experts call for new narrative for this natural stage of a woman’s life – CNN
Systematic Review: Clinical judgement by primary care physicians for the diagnosis of all‐cause dementia or cognitive impairment in symptomatic people.
20 Jun, 2022 | 01:18h | UTCSummary: Why is improving dementia diagnosis important? – Cochrane Library
M-A: Effect of eHealth-delivered exercise programs on balance in people aged 65 years and over living in the community.
15 Jun, 2022 | 10:32h | UTC
Consensus Recommendations: How-to guide for medication reviews in older adults with cancer.
14 Jun, 2022 | 10:58h | UTCRelated: Deprescribing in Palliative Cancer Care – Life
Guideline on management of diabetes-related foot infection.
10 Jun, 2022 | 11:51h | UTCRelated:
M-A: Adverse cardiovascular events and mortality in men during testosterone treatment.
10 Jun, 2022 | 11:03h | UTCInvited Commentary: Testosterone: therapeutic or toxic for the cardiovascular health of men? – The Lancet Health Longevity
Review: Deprescribing in palliative cancer care.
9 Jun, 2022 | 11:28h | UTCDeprescribing in Palliative Cancer Care – Life
Prospective evaluation of autonomic dysfunction in patients with post-acute sequela of COVID-19.
7 Jun, 2022 | 11:38h | UTCCommentary: Autonomic Dysfunction in Post-Acute Sequela of COVID-19 – American College of Cardiology
Prognostic indicators and outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with neurological disease: An individual patient data meta-analysis.
7 Jun, 2022 | 11:36h | UTC
Evidence Review: Preparing for an operation with lifestyle changes.
7 Jun, 2022 | 11:33h | UTCPreparing for an operation with lifestyle changes – Evidently Cochrane
Systematic Review: Interventions for preventing falls in Parkinson’s disease.
7 Jun, 2022 | 11:18h | UTCInterventions for preventing falls in Parkinson’s disease- Cochrane Library
Summary: Interventions for preventing falls in Parkinson’s disease – Cochrane Library
#EULAR2022 – RCT: Low dose, add-on prednisolone in patients with rheumatoid arthritis over 65 years.
6 Jun, 2022 | 11:51h | UTCCommentaries:
Chronic, low-dose glucocorticoid benefits outweigh harms in senior patients with RA – medwire News
Trial Upends Guidelines on Long-Term Steroids in Rheumatoid Arthritis — Vindication for clinicians who ignored official recommendations – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Nationwide cohort study: Association between medical androgen deprivation therapy and long-term cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in nonmetastatic prostate cancer.
3 Jun, 2022 | 11:10h | UTCCommentary: ADT for Prostate Cancer: What’s the Risk on the Heart? – Medscape (free registration required)
Review: Skeletal aging.
2 Jun, 2022 | 10:50h | UTCSkeletal Aging – Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Effectiveness and characteristics of physical fitness training on aerobic fitness in vulnerable older adults: an umbrella review of systematic reviews.
2 Jun, 2022 | 10:16h | UTC
Cohort Study: Evaluation of neurologic and psychiatric outcomes after hospital discharge among adult survivors of cardiac arrest.
2 Jun, 2022 | 10:15h | UTC
Cohort Study: Complicated carotid artery plaques and risk of recurrent ischemic stroke or TIA.
1 Jun, 2022 | 11:19h | UTCCommentary: Complicated Carotid Plaques and Risk of Recurrent Ischemic Stroke or TIA – American College of Cardiology
Commentary on Twitter
#ESOC2022 #JACC SimPub: Complicated #CarotidArtery plaques increase risk of recurrent ischemic #stroke or transient #ischemicattack in pts w/ ischemic stroke & undetermined stroke etiology. https://t.co/io9aUdX8cT
Editorial: https://t.co/H5ReNFnEAS #StrokeMonth #CardioTwitter pic.twitter.com/aYZEPrMmeZ
— JACC Journals (@JACCJournals) May 3, 2022
Association between retinal layer thickness and cognitive decline in older adults.
1 Jun, 2022 | 11:13h | UTCCommentaries:
Retinal Layer Thickness Linked to Risk of Cognitive Decline – NeurologyToday
Retinal Layer Thickness Linked to Cognitive Decline in Older Adults – HealthDay
Commentary on Twitter
The thickness of macular retinal nerve fiber layers could be a prognostic biomarker of long-term #cognitivedecline in adults ages 60 or older, says @JAMAOphth study. #neurotwitter @AANMember #neurology https://t.co/gKzIEfzimX pic.twitter.com/6uwwS5gmEC
— Neurology Today (@NeurologyToday) May 31, 2022
Cohort Study: Taking 5-ARIs for BPH is not associated with increased mortality in prostate cancer.
1 Jun, 2022 | 10:59h | UTCNews Release: Taking 5-ARIs for BPH is not associated with increased mortality in prostate cancer – Karolinska Institute
Original Study: Association of 5α-Reductase Inhibitors With Prostate Cancer Mortality – JAMA Oncology (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Authors Interview: Association of 5α-Reductase Inhibitors With Prostate Cancer Mortality – JAMA
Commentary: Large study finds no increased risk for prostate cancer death with 5-ARI use – medwire News
Commentary on Twitter
This large population-based cohort study found that men treated with 5α-reductase inhibitors had no increased risk of dying from #prostatecancer, on the contrary indicating a decreased risk with longer treatment duration. https://t.co/y8HlpthNI9 #PCSM #GUCSM
— JAMA Oncology (@JAMAOnc) May 19, 2022
Most doctors still believe in prescribing unnecessary antibiotics to treat asymptomatic bacteriuria, study suggests.
31 May, 2022 | 11:31h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
???@jamanetworkopen @dr_dmorgan et Al
In this survey study of 551 primary care clinicians, 392 (71%) reported that they would prescribe antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria, shocking? #IDTwitter @BradSpellberg @DrToddLee @InfectiousDz @bwtrautnerhttps://t.co/tekcQVsfqk pic.twitter.com/1fRakHgjU7— Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem?? (@ABsteward) May 27, 2022
Delirium: How can we protect our patients? Detection and treatment strategies.
31 May, 2022 | 11:10h | UTCRelated:
Less pharmacotherapy is more in delirium – Intensive Care Medicine
Effectiveness of Bundle Interventions on ICU Delirium: A Meta-Analysis – Critical Care Medicine
Evidence-based recommendations on texture modified foods and thickened liquids for adults with oropharyngeal dysphagia – “There is no convincing evidence that thickened liquid or texture modified diet prevents death or pneumonia nor improves the quality of life, nutritional status, or oral intake in individuals with OD”.
30 May, 2022 | 11:54h | UTC