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Changes in dementia treatment patterns associated with changes in the National Policy in South Korea among patients with newly diagnosed Alzheimer's disease between 2011 and 2017: results from the multicenter, retrospective CAPTAIN study.
BMC Public Health
January 2024
National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
Article Synopsis
- - The South Korean government has been implementing strategies since 2008 to combat dementia, including expanding long-term care insurance (LTCI) eligibility for people with dementia in 2014, which provided better access to care services.
- - A study of 3,997 newly diagnosed Alzheimer's patients from 17 hospitals compared treatment patterns before (Cohort 1) and after (Cohort 2) the LTCI revision, revealing that Cohort 2 had a longer duration of initial treatment and lower treatment discontinuation rates.
- - Despite similar cognitive scores at diagnosis, patients from Cohort 2 showed improved treatment outcomes, indicating that the revised LTCI system positively influenced care for Alzheimer's patients in South Korea. *
Depression and quality of life in older adults with pneumoconiosis: The mediating role of death anxiety.
Geriatr Nurs
April 2022
Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health, Kongju National University, Gongju, Korea. Electronic address:
This study identified factors related to the quality of life of older adults with coal workers' pneumoconiosis and determined the mediating effect of death anxiety on the relationship between depression and quality of life. The participants were 161 older adults who were admitted to five pneumoconiosis hospitals in South Korea. The results showed that higher levels of depression indicated higher levels of death anxiety, and higher levels of depression and death anxiety indicated poorer quality of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe evolutionary hypothesis of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
Med Hypotheses
January 2020
ICU, BAEKJE General Hospital, 14, Simin-ro 294beon-gil, Nonsan-si, Chungcheongnam-do 32980, Republic of Korea.
Article Synopsis
- Human otoliths are small ear bones made of calcium carbonate, different from bones in our body that are made of calcium phosphate.
- Our ancient relatives, like echinoderms, created protective structures from calcium and carbon dioxide found in the ocean.
- A condition called BPPV happens when otoliths get detached and cause dizziness, especially in the morning when the body's pH is lower.
A missense mutation in EBF2 was segregated with imperforate anus in a family across three generations.
Am J Med Genet A
July 2018
Department of Microbiology, Integrated Research Center for Genome Polymorphism, Precision Medicine Research Center, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
The etiology of imperforate anus, a major phenotype of anorectal malformation (ARM), is still unknown and not a single gene has been reported to be associated with it. We studied a Korean family with six affected members with imperforate anus across three generations by whole exome sequencing and identified a missense mutation in the EBF2 gene (c.215C > T; p.
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