Emphasizes that the collaboration between primary and secondary care can produce an efficient assessment and treatment service for patients with dementia. Characteristics of dementia; Variation of r...
DEMENTIADRUGSRHEUMATOID arthritisALZHEIMER'S diseaseVASCULAR dementiaInflammation is thought to make a major contribution to the progression of Alzheimer disease (AD). The BHSCT RA database held data on TNFi prescriptions for over 370 patients and for approximately 21 000 biologic nave patients ...
The presence of BPSD of any kind was common (58.0%) at early stages of dementia when patients were enrolled in the Predictors 2 study. Depressive symptoms were reported in 18.0% of the patients, psychotic behavioral symptoms were reported in 36.9% of the patients, and agitation/aggression symp...
If your body mass index (BMI) is over 30 in middle age, you have a higher risk for dementia later in life. And extra pounds anytime make heart disease more likely, which also sometimes leads to brain decline and memory problems. You can calculate BMI online with your height and weight....
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) belongs to the family of neurodegenerative disorders and is classified as fronto-temporal dementia (FTD), progressive muscular atrophy, primary lateral sclerosis, and pseudobulbar palsy. Even though endocrine dysfunction independently impacts the ALS-related survival rate,...
Now, with expensive and risky new drugs coming to market that promise to slow the progression of the disease, there’s new urgency for improved diagnosis. Getting the diagnosis right “Getting the diagnosis right is absolutely critical to be able to provide these new t...
There’s an understandable impulse behind the medical community’s push to test lots of people. The more the disease is diagnosed, the more individuals will be identified for future treatments, and there is no doubt we need to improve recognition of early dementia, especially in medically underse...
There are many types of brain lesions. The brain can be affected by a host of potential injuries that can decrease its function. The type of lesion depends upon the type of insult that the brain receives. Aging:Some lesions occur as a result of agingwith loss of brain cells as they natu...
They claimed that there were more particles in decedent brain samples from patients with dementia. They also claimed that brains from 2016 had fewer particles than brains from 2024. The result is statistically significant, but not convincing due to the high variability. The levels were highest in...
Drug research and discovery is one of the more recent applications for AI in healthcare. By directing the latest advances in AI to streamline the drug discovery and drug repurposing processes there is the potential to significantly cut both the time to market for new drugs and their costs...