“That’s certainly fine as a composite measure over time, but the MMSE is relatively insensitive to mild disease,” says Roy Hamilton, MD, MS, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. “Patients with only minor cognitive impairment may be overlooked ...
To prevent bias in the measurement of the exposure variable, studies could have obtained objective measures of education justifying operationalisation of the measure with reference to the literature. To decrease the likelihood of ascertainment bias, studies could have assessed all participants for dementia...
Socioeconomic position and cognitive decline using data from two waves: what is the role of the wave 1 cognitive measure? Background: Analysis of change in health status using data from two waves can be examined either adjusted or unadjusted for baseline health status. The eff... A Dugravot...
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Zhang and Feldman [13] studied the decline in daily living abilities as a precursor to death in the older adults. Chen et al. [14] analyzed the impact of the overall Plant-Diet Index, a measure of plant-based diet intake, on older adults mortality and found that a higher PDI was ...
We evaluated the cumulative illness burden of chronic illnesses using the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale (CIRS) [18]. The CIRS was developed as a simple, yet reliable measure of chronic physical and mental illnesses. It includes 14 organ systems, and the severity and/or impairment of each syst...
Many assessments and screenings can be used to measure a person's cognitive abilities.4Other cognitive tests look at a person'sshort- and long-term memory. For example, theMini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE)scores a person's cognitive abilities.5 ...
1) How does the brain change with aging? 2) How might drug abuse affect the aging processes of the brain 3) What is the impact of drug abuse on co-morbid conditions in the elderly and vice versa? 4) What unique issues arise with the misuse of prescription drugs in the elderly? Aging...
The aim is To compare the performance of tests that measure crystallized and fluid intelligence in healthy people, AD patients and MCI patients in order to determine what kind of intelligence does not suffer from disease progression and can be used as a premorbid measure. Methods 148 subjects: ...
The primary outcome was to measure the degree of change in vasodilator function assessed by flow mediated dilatation (FMD) in the brachial artery. Secondary outcomes were the ability to maintain attention and concentration during the test (measured by the Stroop test), supine blood pressure, heart...