Population-level dementia-attributable fractions from at least one visual impairment were highest among subpopulations of participants aged 71 to 79 years, female individuals and non-Hispanic white individuals,...
Report: Frailty screening, care can improve care for older adults
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Kristen Fischer
Aug 23, 2024
Checking for frailty and treating it should be top priorities when providing healthcare and health planning for older adults, according to a report published Aug. 7 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
No spike in schizophrenia, other diagnoses among people with dementia after feds crack down on antipsychotic...
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Kimberly Marselas
Aug 28, 2024
Federal policies designed to reduce use of antipsychotic medications in nursing homes did not lead to clinically significantly higher rates of schizophrenia diagnoses among people living with dementia,...
Caseload strain linked to patient survival during delta wave of COVID-19
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Haymarket Media
Sep 10, 2024
One in five COVID-19 deaths were due to strain-attributable mortality; the findings were consistent across hospital types.
Review weighs treatments for genitourinary symptoms of menopause
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Haymarket Media
Sep 10, 2024
Vaginal estrogen, vaginal DHEA, oral ospemifene and vaginal moisturizers may be beneficial for some genitourinary symptoms.
Insulin resistance linked to risk for more than 30 diseases
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Haymarket Media
Sep 09, 2024
Twenty-six positive and five negative correlations were seen, as well as a link between insulin resistance and all-cause mortality in women.
No advantage seen with long-term oxygen therapy for 24 versus 15 hours/day
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Haymarket Media
Sep 10, 2024
For chronic, severe hypoxemia at rest, the risk for hospitalization or death within one year was comparable for oxygen therapy of 24 or 15 hours/day.
Low-dose triple-pill protocol lowers BP in Black Africans with hypertension
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Haymarket Media
Sep 10, 2024
The mean home systolic blood pressure was lower with the triple-pill protocol versus the standard-care protocol at month 6.
Business briefs, Aug. 19
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 19, 2024
Kisco’s Drake Terrace recognized as SAGECare platinum credentialed provider … Bill would raise asset limits for older Medicaid beneficiaries in New Jersey … Senior living partnership births hospice...
Clinical practice guideline developed for treatment of H. pylori infection
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Haymarket Media
Sep 09, 2024
Bismuth quadruple therapy for 14 days is the preferred regimen for treatment-naive patients when antibiotic susceptibility is unknown.