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Fletta eftir efnisorði "Dementia"

Fletta eftir efnisorði "Dementia"

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    Anticholinergic medicines use among older adults before and after initiating dementia medicines 
    Narayan, Sujita W.; Pearson, Sallie‐Anne; Litchfield, Melisa; Le Couteur, David G.; Buckley, Nicholas; McLachlan, Andrew J.; Zoega, Helga (Wiley, 2019-07-07)
    Aims: We investigated anticholinergic medicines use among older adults initiating dementia medicines. Methods: We used Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme dispensing claims to identify patients who initiated donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine or memantine ...
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    Association of Dual Decline in Memory and Gait Speed With Risk for Dementia Among Adults Older Than 60 Years 
    Tian, Qu; Resnick, Susan M.; Mielke, Michelle M.; Yaffe, Kristine; Launer, Lenore J.; Jónsson, Pálmi V.; Grande, Giulia; Welmer, Anna-Karin; Laukka, Erika J.; Bandinelli, Stefania; Cherubini, Antonio; Rosano, Caterina; Kritchevsky, Stephen B.; Simonsick, Eleanor M.; Studenski, Stephanie A.; Ferrucci, Luigi (American Medical Association (AMA), 2020-02-21)
    Importance: Dual decline in both memory and gait speed may characterize a group of older individuals at high risk for future dementia. Objective: To assess the risk of dementia in older persons who experience parallel declines in memory and gait speed ...
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    Associations of Pulmonary Function with MRI Brain Volumes : A Coordinated Multi-Study Analysis 
    Frenzel, Stefan; Bis, Joshua C.; Gudmundsson, Elias F.; O'Donnell, Adrienne; Simino, Jeannette; Yaqub, Amber; Bartz, Traci M.; Brusselle, Guy G.O.; Bülow, Robin; DeCarli, Charles S.; Ewert, Ralf; Gharib, Sina A.; Ghosh, Saptaparni; Gireud-Goss, Monica; Gottesman, Rebecca F.; Ikram, M. Arfan; Knopman, David S.; Launer, Lenore J.; London, Stephanie J.; Longstreth, W. T.; Lopez, Oscar L.; Melo van Lent, Debora; O'Connor, George; Satizabal, Claudia L.; Shrestha, Srishti; Sigurdsson, Sigurdur; Stubbe, Beate; Talluri, Rajesh; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Vernooij, Meike W.; Völzke, Henry; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Yu, Bing; Beiser, Alexa S.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Mosley, Thomas; Psaty, Bruce M.; Wolters, Frank J.; Grabe, Hans J.; Seshadri, Sudha (2022-11-22)
    BACKGROUND: Previous studies suggest poor pulmonary function is associated with increased burden of cerebral white matter hyperintensities and brain atrophy among elderly individuals, but the results are inconsistent. OBJECTIVE: To study the cross-sectional ...
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    Choosing wisely? Quantifying the extent of three low value psychotropic prescribing practices in Australia 
    Brett, Jonathan; Zoega, Helga; Buckley, Nicholas A.; Daniels, Benjamin J.; Elshaug, Adam G.; Pearson, Sallie-Anne (Springer Nature, 2018-12)
    Background The global Choosing Wisely campaign has identified the following psychotropic prescribing as low-value (harmful or wasteful): (1) benzodiazepine use in the elderly, (2) antipsychotic use in dementia and (3) prescribing two or more antipsychotics ...
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    Cognition and brain health among older adults in Iceland : the AGES-Reykjavik study 
    Valsdóttir, Vaka; Magnúsdóttir, Brynja Björk; Chang, Milan; Sigurdsson, Sigurdur; Guðnason, Vilmundur G; Launer, Lenore J.; Jónsdóttir, María Kristín (2022-12)
    The paper aimed to compare how factors previously identified as predictive factors for cognitive decline and dementia related to cognitive performance on the one hand and brain health on the other. To that aim, multiple linear regression was applied ...
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    Dementia risk in the general population : large-scale external validation of prediction models in the AGES-Reykjavik study 
    Vonk, Jet M.J.; Greving, Jacoba P.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Launer, Lenore J.; Geerlings, Mirjam I. (2021-07-25)
    We aimed to evaluate the external performance of prediction models for all-cause dementia or AD in the general population, which can aid selection of high-risk individuals for clinical trials and prevention. We identified 17 out of 36 eligible published ...
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    Incidence of Brain Infarcts, Cognitive Change, and Risk of Dementia in the General Population : The AGES-Reykjavik Study (Age Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study) 
    Sigurdsson, Sigurdur; Aspelund, Thor; Kjartansson, Ólafur; Gudmundsson, Elias Freyr; Jónsdóttir, María Kristín; Eiríksdóttir, Guðný; Jónsson, Pálmi V; van Buchem, Mark A.; Guðnason, Vilmundur G; Launer, Lenore J. (2017-09)
    BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The differentiation of brain infarcts by region is important because their cause and clinical implications may differ. Information on the incidence of these lesions and association with cognition and dementia from longitudinal ...
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    A population-based meta-analysis of circulating GFAP for cognition and dementia risk 
    Gonzales, Mitzi M.; Wiedner, Crystal; Wang, Chen Pin; Liu, Qianqian; Bis, Joshua C.; Li, Zhiguang; Himali, Jayandra J.; Ghosh, Saptaparni; Thomas, Emy A.; Parent, Danielle M.; Kautz, Tiffany F.; Pase, Matthew P.; Aparicio, Hugo J.; Djoussé, Luc; Mukamal, Kenneth J.; Psaty, Bruce M.; Longstreth, William T.; Mosley, Thomas H.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Mbangdadji, Djass; Lopez, Oscar L.; Yaffe, Kristine; Sidney, Stephen; Bryan, R. Nick; Nasrallah, Ilya M.; DeCarli, Charles S.; Beiser, Alexa S.; Launer, Lenore J.; Fornage, Myriam; Tracy, Russell P.; Seshadri, Sudha; Satizabal, Claudia L. (2022-09-03)
    Objective: Expression of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), a marker of reactive astrocytosis, colocalizes with neuropathology in the brain. Blood levels of GFAP have been associated with cognitive decline and dementia status. However, further ...
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    Who cares for the carer? The suffering, struggles and unmet needs of older women caring for husbands living with cognitive decline 
    Munkejord, Mai Camilla; Stefánsdóttir, Olga Ásrún; Sveinbjarnardóttir, Eydís Kr (2020-03-18)
    Background: The Nordic welfare states have been called the ‘caring states’. However, increasingly, less money is spent on long-term care for older persons than on care for younger persons. Additionally, a strong de-institutionalisation of care coupled ...