Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Background: Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) is characterized by cognitive complaints in cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals. Its condition displays considerable heterogeneity etiologies, including neurodegenerative diseases. Our aim is to compare the memory complaints between patients with SCD and their informants in the BRASCODE cohort.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is the self-perceived impairment of cognitive function and has been studied as a risk factor for objective cognitive impairment. Monitoring patients with SCD can aid in understanding the risk factors for dementia in low- and middle-income countries. We aimed to describe the baseline sociodemographic and clinical data of the Brazilian Subjective Cognitive Decline (BRASCODE) METHODS: BRASCODE is an observational, prospective cohort study of cognitively unimpaired individuals with > 65 years-old with cognitive complaints conducted at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This systematic review summarizes the literature on the associations between movement behaviors (eg, sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity [PA]) and cognition, and academic achievement (AA) in children and adolescents.
Methods: Four electronic databases (PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, and SPORTDiscus) were searched from inception until October 2023.
Results: This systematic review included 24 reports, representing 48,558 youth aged 6-17.
Embryonic hematopoietic cells develop in the fetal liver (FL), surrounded by diverse non-hematopoietic stromal cells. However, the spatial organization and cytokine production patterns of the stroma during FL development remain poorly understood. Here, we characterized and mapped the hematopoietic and stromal cell populations at early (E12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article analyzes the sociodemographic composition of the Indigenous population in Brazil in the 1991, 2000, and 2010 demographic censuses, in addition to investigating inequalities in access to basic sanitation and electricity based on the 2010 Census. A methodology is proposed that classifies households with Indigenous residents as "homogeneous", "mixed" with an Indigenous in the category "household head", and mixed with a non-Indigenous in the category "household head". Regional and situational differences overlapped with differences by type of household and location, with better conditions in urban than rural areas and in the Southeast and South.
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