Medications causing potential cognitive impairment are common in nursing home dementia units - A cross-sectional study.

Background: With advancing age the brain becomes more sensitive to centrally acting drugs thus increasing the risk of cognitive side-effects. The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare developed indicators to measure and follow quality in older people's drug therapy, one being "Potentially Inappropriate Medications risking Cognitive impairment (PIMcogn)". Associations between anticholinergics and cognitive impairment are described, especially in persons with Alzheimer's disease or Lewy Body Dementia/Parkinson's disease dementia, due to degenerated cholinergic pathways.

Predictors of non-participation in cervical screening in Denmark.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to identify demographic and socio-economic predictors of non-participation in cervical screening in Denmark, and to evaluate the influence of health care use on screening participation.

Methods: A population based register study was undertaken using data from the Central Population Register, the national Patobank, and Statistics Denmark. The study included women aged 25-54 years on 1st of January 2002, living in Denmark during the next 5 years, and without a history of total hysterectomy, N=1,052,447.