Publications by authors named "Glaucia Pivi"
Background/objectives: Sulfites are additives commonly used in food and wine industries that are associated to adverse clinical effects such as headaches. The objective of this study is to investigate the possible association between sulfite concentration in wine and the occurrence of headaches in young adults.
Subjects/methods: Eighty volunteers, aged between 18 and 25 years, were evaluated.
Effects of APOE haplotypes and measures of cardiovascular risk over gender-dependent cognitive and functional changes in one year in Alzheimer's disease.
Int J Neurosci
May 2018
Article Synopsis
- The study explored factors affecting cognitive and functional decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients over one year, focusing on gender, education, CHD risk, BMI, and APOE haplotypes.
- Results indicated that for women, higher BMI and creatinine clearance correlated with better cognitive scores, while higher education levels were tied to faster decline in daily living abilities.
- Conversely, no significant effects of these variables were found for men, and APOE haplotypes influenced the age of AD onset but not the progression of the disease.
Midlife cerebrovascular risk, low cognitive reserve and APOE4+ haplotypes are risk factors for Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD). We prospectively searched for factors that might be associated with yearly changes in caregiver burden, cognition, basic and instrumental functionality in 193 consecutive outpatients with late-onset AD, namely gender, APOE haplotypes, schooling, age at AD onset, marital status, depression, cerebrovascular risk factors, serum TSH levels, cognitive and physical activities, and treatment with cholinesterase inhibitors or anti-psychotics, while also investigating associations between APOE haplotypes and patient participation in cognitive or physical activities. Higher education led to greater declines in instrumental functionality, whereas increases in body mass index were associated with rises in basic functionality and cognitive test scores.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn increasing proportion of older adults with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias are now surviving to more advanced stages of the illness. Advanced dementia is associated with feeding problems, including difficulty in swallowing and respiratory diseases. Patients become incompetent to make decisions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Weight loss in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common clinical manifestation that may have clinical significance.
Objectives: To evaluate if there is a difference between nutrition education and oral nutritional supplementation on nutritional status in patients with AD.
Methods: A randomized, prospective 6-month study which enrolled 90 subjects with probable AD aged 65 years or older divided into 3 groups: Control Group (CG) [n = 27], Education Group (EG) [n = 25], which participated in an education program and Supplementation Group (SG) [n = 26], which received two daily servings of oral nutritional supplementation.