... by 80 percent on average. The team further concluded that being underweight also increases the risk of dementia and its subtypes. The studies cited in the meta-analysis were conducted in a number of ...
... 's not just weight gain that poses a risk. People who are underweight also have an elevated risk of dementia, unlike people who are normal weight or overweight.
US researchers carried out a detailed ...
... urgent need to improve end-of-life care for older people in the final stages of dementia, according to an international review published in the May issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing. “We must act ...
... more than a decade and are commonly used to treat the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia,” the authors write as background information in the article. “Antipsychotic drugs are often ...
Older adults with dementia who receive short-term courses of antipsychotic medications are more likely to be hospitalized or die than those who do not take the drugs, according to a new article.
... function optimally in the absence of their synchronizing effects. In elderly patients with dementia, synchronization may be [diminished] if light exposure and melatonin production are reduced."
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Researchers who put brighter lights into nursing homes have found that residents with dementia appear to suffer fewer symptoms.
The use of antipsychotic drugs to tamp down the agitation, combative behavior and outbursts of dementia patients has soared.
... to have low test scores when they were children than the people who did not develop dementia. This difference was not true for those with Alzheimer's disease.
"These results point to the importance ...
Children with lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high IQs, according to research published in the 25 June 2008 online issue of Neurology(R), the ...
... age group in the industrialized world.
The precise mechanism linking HDL cholesterol to dementia remains unclear. "But it is possible that HDL cholesterol prevents formation of beta-amyloid," Singh- ...
EASINGTON, England, July 14 (UPI) -- A British dementia patient's progress using an infrared device in an experimental helmet could be "hugely significant," the device's developer says.
... who score below 27 on the MMSE are at increased risk of cognitive dysfunction and dementia and should be referred for a comprehensive evaluation, including formal neuropsychological studies."
The ...
... coronary heart disease and cognition. Until now, research on the link between cardiovascular disease and dementia has focused more on cerebrovascular disease than CHD. However, it is CHD and not ...
... in the journal The Lancet suggests that this figure has been underestimated and that levels of dementia in the developing world may be much closer to those in the developed world.
The research was ...
