Publications by authors named "H Jarvinen"
Hospitalization Due to Infections before and after Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis.
J Am Med Dir Assoc
January 2025
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the rates and changes in infections before and after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), revealing limited research on this topic.
- It analyzes data from over 70,000 Finnish individuals, highlighting a significant increase in infection-related hospitalizations in those with AD, particularly occurring 1-2 years prior to diagnosis.
- The findings suggest that higher infection rates in AD patients could be linked to factors such as systemic inflammation and caregiver burden, emphasizing the need for infection prevention in the care of individuals with cognitive disorders.
Hierarchical self-assembly of nanostructures with addressable complexity has been a promising route for realizing novel functional materials. Traditionally, the fabrication of such structures on a large scale has been achievable using top-down methods but with the cost of complexity of the fabrication equipment resolution and limitation mainly to 2D structures. More recently bottom-up methods using molecules like DNA have gained attention due to the advantages of low fabrication costs, high resolution and simplicity in an extension of the methods to the third dimension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pneumonia is a very common infection in the cognitively impaired adult population, often leading to long-term deterioration, in physical and cognitive performance. Evidence is lacking on whether chronic comorbidities and drug use are risk factors for pneumonia in persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The objective of this study was to investigate the risk factors of pneumonia in community dwellers with and without AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Acute onset of interstitial lung disease (ILD) has been described in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM), but controlled studies about this issue are sparse. The aim of this study was to compare disease onset, demographics, and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) patterns in IIM-ILD and other connective tissue disease (CTD)-ILDs.
Methods: Clinical and radiological data of 22 IIM-ILD and 132 other CTD-ILD patients was retrospectively gathered from hospital registries between January 2000 and November 2019.