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Acad Med
December 2024
R.M. Leipzig is professor and vice chair emerita, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
Purpose: Medical student education in geriatrics is a critical need for every doctor-in-training as the population ages, with fewer than 7,000 geriatricians, and older patients, who now approach 20% of the U.S. population, having unique health care needs.
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December 2024
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) missing heritability remains extensive despite numerous genetic risk loci identified by genome-wide association or sequencing studies. This has been attributed, at least partially, to mechanisms not currently investigated by traditional single-marker/gene approaches. Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) aggregate sparse genetic information across the genome to identify individual genetic risk profiles for disease prediction and patient risk stratification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Biomarker cutpoints have received significant importance in AD research. Reliable worsening method based on serial biomarker data has been proposed (Jack et al., 2017 Alz & Dem).
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December 2024
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Background: Impaired cognition is prevalent in older adults in the emergency department (ED), but many cases go unrecognized. The Ascertain Dementia 8 (AD8) is a validated, self-administered screening tool that can be used by patients and caregivers to assess for early cognitive changes associated with dementia. However, little is known regarding the degree of alignment between respondents in the ED setting.
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December 2024
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Background: Prior longitudinal studies among older adults have documented associations between hearing loss and changes in brain morphology. Whether interventions involving hearing aids can reduce age-related atrophy is unknown. A substudy within the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE, Clinicaltrials.
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