Publications by authors named "J Teresi"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers relate to cognitive performance as measured by the NIHTB-CB in late middle-aged Hispanic individuals.
- Lower cortical thickness (CT) and the presence of infarcts were linked to poorer performance in reading recognition and overall cognition scores, while higher white matter hyperintensities (WMH) also negatively impacted processing speed.
- Interestingly, amyloid and tau levels, often associated with AD, showed no correlation with cognitive test performance, prompting further research to see if AD affects NIHTB-CB results over time.
Background: Family and professional caregivers of individuals with dementia often witness care-receiver's lucidity events.
Objective: A qualitative data analysis was performed of documented family and professional caregivers' experiences and their respective appraisals of lucidity events.
Research Design And Methods: Using a reduction method of selection, data from 10 in-home family caregivers and 20 professional caregivers to long-term care residents was content-coded and analysed.
Objectives: Resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) in long-term care facilities is gaining recognition as a serious problem. Racial/ethnic conflict may be a contributing factor to RRA incidents, but it remains insufficiently studied. Our goal was to explore overt racial/ethnic conflict in RRA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Black and Hispanic patients have high rates of recurrent stroke and uncontrolled hypertension in the US. The effectiveness of home blood pressure telemonitoring (HBPTM) and telephonic nurse case management (NCM) among low-income Black and Hispanic patients with stroke is unknown.
Objective: To determine whether NCM plus HBPTM results in greater systolic blood pressure (SBP) reduction at 12 months and lower rate of stroke recurrence at 24 months than HBPTM alone among Black and Hispanic stroke survivors with uncontrolled hypertension.
Background: Allostatic load (AL) has been studied in the context of biomarkers that may be affected by environmental and contextual stressors, including social determinants of health. The specific stressor studied here is the provision of caregiving to older persons with Alzheimer disease and related disorders. The aims were to examine the factor structure of stress and nonstress biomarkers, different methods for calculating AL, and the relationship of AL with other variables.
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