and a reduced risk of dementia. This finding supports the hypothesis that common dementias may be triggered by viral or bacterial infections, and supports recent interest in vaccines, such as the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis, and decreased risk of dementia. ...
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Causal inference can be understood as the task of answering what-if questions concerning interventions on risk or protective factors for disease.1 For example, a study could be concerned with answering the question “how much would the risk of dementia change if individuals who were sedentary becam...
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The responsible conduct of research received virtually no attention as a formal discipline until 30 years ago when federal regulatory agencies, legislators, and the public were first faced with a series of high-profile cases of alleged research misconduct. The prevention of such misconduct became a...
However, the precise mechanisms of statins’ role in sepsis remain unclear. Nevertheless, both observational and interventional trials have studied statin use for sepsis outcomes [11, 12, 14, 15]. Many of these studies have concentrated on sicker patients, homogeneous populations, and focused on a...
(CSF) circulates in and around the brain and spinal cord to help cushion them from injury. When this fluid leaks into the body, the brain can sag, causing dementia symptoms. Schievink said many patients with brain sagging—which can be detected through MRI—go undiagnosed, and he...
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The Second Annual Conference on Vaccine Research: Basic Science-Product Development-Clinical and Field Studies will be held March 28-30, 1999, in Bethesda, Maryland. Cosponsors are CDC, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...