Use of common cardiovascular disease drugs and risk of dementia: A case-control study in Swedish national register data.

Introduction: Cardiovascular drug use may help prevent dementia; however, current evidence is mixed. Using a case-control design, we investigated the association between duration and combination of multiple cardiovascular drug classes and incident dementia.

Methods: From the Swedish national registers, we included 88,065 incident dementia cases aged ≥ 70 at diagnosis between 2011 and 2016 and 880,650 age- and sex-matched controls.

Food Insecurity, Vision Impairment, and Longitudinal Risk of Frailty and Falls in The National Health and Aging Trends Study.

Background: Both food insecurity (FI) and vision impairment (VI), which are linked, have been independently associated with frailty and falls.

Objectives: Understand how FI and VI may together contribute to frailty and fall risk could improve insight into these growing public health challenges.

Design, Setting, Participants, Measurements: This study included 5,963 participants aged 65 and older enrolled in the National Health and Aging Trends Study.

Financial and numerical abilities: patterns of dissociation in neurological and psychiatric diseases.

The present work investigates whether financial abilities can be associated with numerical abilities and with general cognitive abilities. We compared performance on numerical and financial tests, and on tests routinely used to measure general cognitive performance, in healthy controls and in a group of people with heterogeneous pathological conditions including mild cognitive impairment, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, and schizophrenia. Patients showed lower performances in both numerical and financial abilities compared to controls.

Influence of stress resilience in adolescence on long-term risk of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis among men: A prospective register-based cohort study in Sweden.

Background: Although stress is considered to be a negative factor for psoriasis, no convincing scientific evidence of this association exists, largely because of difficulties in measuring stress. Stress resilience is the ability to cope with and adapt to stressful events. Stress resilience can be measured in a standardized way and used as a marker for chronic stress.

Behavioral and dysexecutive variant of Alzheimer's disease: Insights from structural and molecular imaging studies.

Frontal variant Alzheimer's disease (AD) manifests with either behavioral or dysexecutive syndromes. Recent efforts to gain a deeper understanding of this phenotype have led to a re-conceptualization of frontal AD. Behavioral (bAD) and dysexecutive (dAD) phenotypes could be considered subtypes, as suggested by both clinical and neuroimaging studies.