Dementia

Screening of older adults for falls and cognitive impairment should be routine in primary care; a recent study highlights an intervention that could help.

Patients taking either of the 2 anticoagulants showed no large differences on 4 cognitive test scores at 2 years, according to authors of the GIRAF trial.

A new analysis of the large ASPREE trial found statin use in older adults is not associated in the incidence of dementia or a decline in neurocognitive health.

International Stroke Conference: Adults with dementia are more likely to be infected with COVID-19, but no more likely to die from it vs those without cognitive impairment.

It’s how much cannabis your patients with HIV infection smoke now-not over their lifetime-that appears to affect their cognition.

An association was found between headache or non-migrainous headache and later dementia. Not so for migraine.

A multi-step inflammatory cascade appears to connect hyperglycemia and brain dysfunction.

Here’s a look at what’s new and interesting on the Web for health care professionals.

Growing evidence suggests a link between obesity and dementia, but risk may be heightened or lowered, depending on age. In this study, early to mid-life obesity was linked with increased risk of later dementia.

In the news: stroke prevention, heart disease and women, migraine and depression, cholinesterase inhibitors and dementia, multivitamins and cataract risk.