Discontinuation of Statins in Elderly Patients with Advanced Dementia and Limited Life Expectancydoi:10.1016/j.jamda.2016.12.035Addagatla, SwethaAddagatla, SwethaElsevier Inc.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Stopping Statins Sits Well With Most Patients With Limited Life Expectancy WORCESTER, MA — A new survey suggests patients with advanced, life-limiting illnesses are more open than physicians might think to discontinuing statin therapy[1]. The study was published online recently in theJournal of Pal...
The average life expectancy of EGCG increased by 13.1%, 8.0% and 11.8% at 0.1–10.0 μg/mL, respectively, under 35 ℃ high temperature stress. Under oxidative stress, EGCG increased the average lifespan of nematodes by 172.9%, 177.7% and 88.5% at 0.1–10.0 μg/mL, respectively. EGCG ...
For patients with shorter life expectancy, greater concern about pill burden, and more comfort-oriented goals of care, physicians may endorse discontinuing statins as a means to reduce the number of medications without apparent harmful effects on survival or QOL. With symptoms and QOL as the ...
2 As seen, there was a dramatic improvement in life-expectancy after 1940 which could be attributed to three factors: While early improvement in life-expectancy was a result in control of infectious diseases, subsequent improvement occurred as a consequence of focus on life-style diseases. From ...
Pillar 3: Performance Improvement/Quality Assurance Variation in the quality of care has long been a problem when managing the health of an individual or a population. Care must be equitable, of a high standard and based on evidence. Management of diabetes or any other long-term condition requi...
(1) Improvement in Other Risk Factors. It is possible that the deleterious impact of obesity is outweighed by other 2 Journal of Obesity factors favourably influencing life expectancy. Capewell et al. (2010) have reported that in the United States three of the six major risk factors for CHD...
Statins are the gold standard for treating high cholesterol. They work by inhibiting an enzyme that controls how much cholesterol your body makes. But many people have significant side-effects from statins. There can be side effects in the form of muscle pain. But statins can also cause headach...
Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. Lancet. 2018;392(10159):1684-1735. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31891-9PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 3. Forouhi NG, Misra A, Mohan V,...
While this gender gap is partially explained by wom- en's longer life expectancy, some researchers suggested that women decline to dementia at a faster pace compared to men due to both biological and social differences [106]. Biologically, the E4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene, the ...