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Cycling in Midlife Tied to Lower Risk of Dementia

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JUNE 9, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Using physically active transportation modes in midlife -- particularly cycling -- was tied to lower dementia risk and greater hippocampal volume, a large U.K. Biobank study suggested. Compared with non-active travel like.

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The Best Way To Prevent Dementia

Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 11, 2025

More than heart disease or cancer, dementia is the primary concern for many of the patients I see. Heart disease and cancer attack your body, but dementia attacks your mind and identity. That is why I believe people fear dementia so much. Thankfully, 45% of all dementia is preventable 1. That factor is exercise.

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Dementia Cases to Double in the U.S.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Dementia cases in the U.S. In a racially and geographically diverse sample, the lifetime risk of dementia was estimated at 42% (95% CI 41-43) with incidence. are expected to double in the next four decades, a new analysis suggested.

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Persistent Anxiety Tied to Future Dementia

Med Page Today

JULY 24, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Persistent anxiety raised the risk of all-cause dementia in older adults, a longitudinal study showed. Both chronic anxiety (HR 2.80, 95% CI 1.35-5.72, 5.72, P=0.01) and new-onset anxiety (HR 3.20, 95% CI 1.40-7.45, 7.45, P=0.01) were tied.

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Young-Onset Dementia Tied to Preeclampsia

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MAY 30, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Preeclampsia raised the risk of young-onset dementia, a prospective study of nearly 2 million women in France showed. Compared with pregnancies without hypertensive disorders, preeclampsia more than doubled the risk of dementia.

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Dementia Risk Drops With Shingrix Vaccine

Med Page Today

JULY 25, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- The recombinant shingles vaccine (Shingrix) was associated with a larger reduction in dementia than the live shingles vaccine (Zostavax), an analysis of more than 200,000 U.S. older adults showed. Over a 6-year follow-up period.

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Fluctuating Cholesterol Tied to Higher Dementia Risk

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JANUARY 29, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Year-to-year fluctuations in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels were tied to higher risks of cognitive decline and dementia, a study of nearly 10,000 older adults showed. Participants with.

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Dementia Predicted 10 Years Before Diagnosis

Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Blood protein profiles predicted future dementia in healthy adults, a large longitudinal study showed. Blood samples from over 50,000 people in the U.K. Biobank showed that four proteins -- glial fibrillary acidic protein.

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Common Intervention Lowers Dementia Risk, Trial Shows

Med Page Today

APRIL 21, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Reducing hypertension dropped dementia risk by 15% in the open-label China Rural Hypertension Control phase III (CRHC-3) trial of nearly 34,000 people. At 48 months, all-cause dementia among people with high blood pressure was.

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Some Antidepressants Linked to Faster Cognitive Decline in Dementia Patients

Med Page Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Antidepressant medications were associated with faster rates of cognitive decline in patients with dementia, a national cohort study in Sweden showed. Among nearly 19,000 people with dementia, people prescribed antidepressants.

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Dementia Risk Linked With Processed Red Meat

Med Page Today

JULY 31, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Eating two servings of processed red meat a week over decades raised the odds of subsequent dementia, a prospective study of 130,000 healthcare professionals showed. Over up to 43 years of follow-up, participants.

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Dementia Mortality Tied to Olive Oil Consumption

Med Page Today

MAY 6, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Higher olive oil intake was associated with a lower risk of dementia-related mortality, a prospective study of 90,000 healthcare professionals showed. Eating at least 7 g of olive oil daily -- about a half tablespoon --.

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Loneliness Tied to Alzheimer's and Dementia Risk

Med Page Today

OCTOBER 11, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Loneliness increased the risk for all-cause dementia, a meta-analysis that included more than 600,000 people showed. Feeling lonely was tied to a 31% higher risk of overall dementia (HR 1.306, 95% CI 1.197-1.426), according.

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Dementia Risk Dropped With Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Certain Patients

Med Page Today

AUGUST 12, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- An anti-inflammatory diet was tied to a lower risk for dementia in people ages 60 and older with cardiometabolic diseases, U.K. Biobank data showed. Among people with cardiometabolic diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart.

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Up to 1 in 5 Dementia Cases May Be Attributable to Vision Impairment

Med Page Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Up to one in five prevalent dementia cases may be attributable to impaired vision, a cross-sectional analysis suggested. In a study of nearly 2,800 older Americans, the population attributable fraction (PAF) of prevalent dementia.

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New Guidelines Update Alzheimer's and Dementia Evaluations

Med Page Today

DECEMBER 31, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A three-step process underscores new clinical practice guidelines for primary and specialty care clinicians to evaluate patients who may have cognitive impairment or dementia due to Alzheimer's or a related disease. In broad.

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Young-Onset Dementia Tied to New Risk Factors

Med Page Today

DECEMBER 26, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- Four new risk factors for young-onset dementia were identified in the prospective U.K. Biobank study. Orthostatic hypotension, vitamin D deficiency, high C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and social isolation emerged as new risk.

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Emergency Care for Cannabis Use Tied to Higher Dementia Risk

Med Page Today

APRIL 14, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- People that required emergency department (ED) or acute hospital care for cannabis use may have an increased risk of a subsequent dementia diagnosis, a retrospective matched cohort study of 6 million people in Canada suggested.

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Fitness Level May Offset Genetic Dementia Risk

Med Page Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease and dementia appeared to be partly offset by high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, U.K. Biobank data suggested. Overall, high cardiorespiratory fitness was associated with better global.

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Genetic risk-factor overlap between Alzheimer's disease, and all-cause and vascular dementias

Science Daily - Stroke

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia.

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Hearing Loss May Play a Bigger Role in Dementia Than Previously Thought

Med Page Today

APRIL 17, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Hearing loss may play a bigger role in dementia than previously thought, data from a U.S. 46.5%) of incident dementia over 8 years could. cohort study suggested. In a sample of nearly 3,000 older adults, up to 32% (95% CI 11.0%-46.5%)

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Falling May Be a Harbinger of Dementia in Older Adults

Med Page Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or related dementia was more common after falls than after other traumatic injuries, an analysis of Medicare claims data showed. The study assessed nearly 2.5 million older adults who had.

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Lifestyle-Dementia Links Persist Regardless of Risk Genes, French Study Shows

Med Page Today

MAY 23, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Lifestyle and other dementia risk factors were linked with cognitive changes independently of genetic risks for Alzheimer's disease, a French prospective study found. Across nearly 5,200 people in three French cities, worse.

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Quick Test Helps Detect Dementia

Med Page Today

JUNE 7, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A quick cognitive assessment tool helped improve dementia-related care in primary care patients, a randomized controlled trial showed. Compared with standard care, the 5-Cog system tripled the odds that a patient would receive.

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Physiology Friday #245: Fitness Protects against Neurodegenerative Diseases—Even in Those at the Greatest Risk

Physiologically Speaking

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Exercise benefits on Alzheimer’s disease: State-of-the-science - ScienceDirect But could fitness also influence our risk for common diseases of aging like dementia and Alzheimer’s? And while lifestyle factors play a crucial role in mitigating the risk of dementia, our genetic makeup also plays a part. Moderate: 24.1–31.1

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Long-Term Use of NSAIDs Linked to Lower Dementia Risk

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MARCH 7, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was tied to a decreased risk of dementia, data from the prospective Rotterdam Study showed. Over an average follow-up of 14.5 years, use of NSAIDs for 24 months.

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Frailty Tied to Future Dementia

Med Page Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Frailty -- a measure of health deficits in multiple body systems -- was tied to future risk of dementia, longitudinal data from four cohorts showed. Across nearly 30,000 older adults in the U.S. and the U.K., frailty was.

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Dementia, Stroke, Depression Linked to Biological Aging Marker

Med Page Today

JUNE 11, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Shorter leukocyte telomere length -- a marker of biological aging -- was tied to a higher risk of age-related brain disease, but modifiable risk factors appeared to mitigate its effect, U.K. Biobank data suggested.

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Dementia-Sleep Link Has a New Twist

Med Page Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- Sleep regularity in midlife and at older ages may be a novel dementia risk factor, data from 88,000 people in Great Britain suggested. Day-to-day consistency in sleep-wake patterns showed a U-shaped association with incident.

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Expert Panel: Target These 14 Factors to Cut Dementia Incidence by Nearly Half

Med Page Today

JULY 31, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- The Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention, and care has raised the number of modifiable risk factors definitively linked to cognitive loss to 14, based on research conducted since its last update.

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Midlife Blood Biomarkers Predict Late-Life Dementia

Med Page Today

AUGUST 2, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- Blood biomarkers specific to Alzheimer's disease -- specifically, amyloid-beta 42/40 ratios and measures of phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181) -- had a relationship with subsequent dementia that started in.

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Research finds causal evidence tying cerebral small-vessel disease to Alzheimer's, dementia

Science Daily - Heart Disease

JUNE 21, 2024

While previous studies suggested an association of the most common cerebral small-vessel disease with dementia risk, new research provides evidence of causal link, identifying it as a major vascular factor.

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Risk of dementia was nearly three times higher the first year after a stroke

American Heart News - Stroke News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Research Highlights: In a large population study conducted in Canada, the risk of dementia was nearly 3 times higher in the first year after a stroke, then fell to a 1.5-times times increased risk by the 5-year mark and remained elevated 20 years later.

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Hearing Loss Linked with Increased Risk of Dementia

HCPLive

JANUARY 4, 2024

In a new study, hearing loss was significantly associated with a 7% higher risk of dementia, while hearing aids were shown to reduce such risks.

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Warning Letters Safely Lowered Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia

Med Page Today

APRIL 25, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Overprescribing warning letters modestly cut the use of antipsychotic medications without apparent repercussion in people with dementia, a secondary analysis of a randomized trial indicated. Compared with primary care physicians.

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Young-Onset Dementia Risk Rises With Metabolic Syndrome

Med Page Today

APRIL 23, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- The risk of young-onset dementia -- dementia before age 65 -- was higher in people with metabolic syndrome, a nationwide population-based study in Korea showed. Across nearly 2 million people with a mean age of 49, metabolic.

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Are Antibiotics Linked to Dementia? New Study Weighs In

Med Page Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Antibiotic use didn't raise the risk of dementia in healthy older adults, a prospective study suggested. Over about 5 years of follow-up, antibiotic use was not tied to higher dementia incidence (HR 1.03, 95% CI 0.84-1.25) 1.25) compared.

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Dementia May Be Underdiagnosed in States With Motor Vehicle Reporting Mandates

Med Page Today

APRIL 26, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Mandating clinicians to report drivers with dementia may be associated with missed or delayed dementia diagnoses, a cross-sectional study of primary care providers suggested. Clinicians in states that required them to report.

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Muscle Loss May Portend Future Dementia

Med Page Today

DECEMBER 5, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Older individuals with apparent skeletal muscle mass loss were at greater risk of developing dementia, researchers found. People with low temporalis muscle mass -- a set of jawbone muscles linked to changes in whole-body skeletal.

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Palliative Care for Dementia Cuts Emergency Department Visits, with Greg A. Sachs, MD

HCPLive

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

HCPLive spoke with Sachs about his study on palliative care for dementia, which reduced ED visits but didnt significantly improve neuropsychiatric symptoms.

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Dementia Risk Rises for Older Women With Changing Sleep Patterns

Med Page Today

MARCH 19, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Changes in sleep patterns among cognitively unimpaired women in their 80s were associated with an increased risk of dementia, a longitudinal study showed. Compared with women who had stable sleep patterns, those who had increasing.

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'Natural Experiment' Ties Shingles Vaccine to Reduced Dementia Risk

Med Page Today

APRIL 2, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- Vaccination against herpes zoster, or shingles, was tied to significantly less dementia risk, a large-scale analysis of electronic health records in Wales showed. Receiving the live-attenuated zoster vaccine (Zostavax) reduced.

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Antipsychotics in Dementia Tied to Wider Range of 'Serious Harms'

Med Page Today

APRIL 17, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- Use of antipsychotics in dementia patients was associated with an increased risk for a wider range of adverse outcomes than previously acknowledged, a population-based matched cohort study from the U.K. In the analysis.

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National outcomes for dementia patients undergoing cardiac surgery in a pre-structural era

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With an aging population and higher prevalence of dementia, there is a paucity of data regarding dementia patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery. We examined the nationwide trends and outcomes of cardiovas.

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Cycling in Midlife Tied to Lower Risk of Dementia

The Best Way To Prevent Dementia

Dementia Cases to Double in the U.S.

Persistent Anxiety Tied to Future Dementia

Young-Onset Dementia Tied to Preeclampsia

Dementia Risk Drops With Shingrix Vaccine

Fluctuating Cholesterol Tied to Higher Dementia Risk

Dementia Predicted 10 Years Before Diagnosis

Common Intervention Lowers Dementia Risk, Trial Shows

Some Antidepressants Linked to Faster Cognitive Decline in Dementia Patients

Dementia Risk Linked With Processed Red Meat

Dementia Mortality Tied to Olive Oil Consumption

Loneliness Tied to Alzheimer's and Dementia Risk

Dementia Risk Dropped With Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Certain Patients

Up to 1 in 5 Dementia Cases May Be Attributable to Vision Impairment

New Guidelines Update Alzheimer's and Dementia Evaluations

Young-Onset Dementia Tied to New Risk Factors

Emergency Care for Cannabis Use Tied to Higher Dementia Risk

Fitness Level May Offset Genetic Dementia Risk

Genetic risk-factor overlap between Alzheimer's disease, and all-cause and vascular dementias

Hearing Loss May Play a Bigger Role in Dementia Than Previously Thought

Falling May Be a Harbinger of Dementia in Older Adults

Lifestyle-Dementia Links Persist Regardless of Risk Genes, French Study Shows

Quick Test Helps Detect Dementia

Physiology Friday #245: Fitness Protects against Neurodegenerative Diseases—Even in Those at the Greatest Risk

Long-Term Use of NSAIDs Linked to Lower Dementia Risk

Frailty Tied to Future Dementia

Dementia, Stroke, Depression Linked to Biological Aging Marker

Dementia-Sleep Link Has a New Twist

Expert Panel: Target These 14 Factors to Cut Dementia Incidence by Nearly Half

Midlife Blood Biomarkers Predict Late-Life Dementia

Research finds causal evidence tying cerebral small-vessel disease to Alzheimer's, dementia

Risk of dementia was nearly three times higher the first year after a stroke

Hearing Loss Linked with Increased Risk of Dementia

Warning Letters Safely Lowered Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia

Young-Onset Dementia Risk Rises With Metabolic Syndrome

Are Antibiotics Linked to Dementia? New Study Weighs In

Dementia May Be Underdiagnosed in States With Motor Vehicle Reporting Mandates

Muscle Loss May Portend Future Dementia

Palliative Care for Dementia Cuts Emergency Department Visits, with Greg A. Sachs, MD

Dementia Risk Rises for Older Women With Changing Sleep Patterns

'Natural Experiment' Ties Shingles Vaccine to Reduced Dementia Risk

Antipsychotics in Dementia Tied to Wider Range of 'Serious Harms'

National outcomes for dementia patients undergoing cardiac surgery in a pre-structural era

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