COPENHAGEN – When it comes to treatment of hypertension, perhaps not all age groups should be treated equally, according to findings from a study of very elderly patients.
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COPENHAGEN – Almost half of patients with mild cognitive impairment progressed to dementia within 1 year of undergoing either arthroplasty or coronary angiography, according to a small Australian...
COPENHAGEN – Almost half of patients with mild cognitive impairment progressed to dementia within 1 year of undergoing either arthroplasty or coronary angiography, according to a small Australian...
COPENHAGEN – The location of cerebral microbleeds appears to be strongly associated with dementia subtypes, perhaps reflecting the disorders’ underlying pathologies.
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CHICAGO – Postmenopausal African American women with subclinical atherosclerosis appear to be more resistant to the anti-inflammatory effects of daily aspirin than their white counterparts.
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Stress, hostility, and depressive symptoms appear to increase the risk of stroke and transient ischemic attack in middle-aged and older adults, according to findings from the Multi-Ethnic Study of...
CHICAGO – More liberal lipid targets in elderly patients and lower statin doses might offset the risk of memory decline associated with statin use in these patients, <link...
MUNICH – Women pregnant with an embryo produced by in vitro fertilization of a donated egg developed gestational hypertension at nearly four times the rate of matched women who were pregnant...
PARIS – The usual rule that the larger an aortic aneurysm grows the greater the risk it will undergo dissection or rupture doesn’t work in patients with giant-cell arteritis. Their aortic aneurysms...
CHICAGO – The antihypertensive agent olmesartan is associated with increased risk of a severe sprue-like enteropathy, as highlighted in a nationwide French cohort study.
This olmesartan-related...