Higher frailty levels are associated with lower cognitive test scores in a multi-country study: evidence from the study on global ageing and adult health

Autor: Rosa Estela García-Chanes, José Alberto Avila-Funes, Miguel Germán Borda, Mario Ulises Pérez-Zepeda, Luis Miguel Gutiérrez-Robledo

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Medicine, Vol 10 (2023)

BackgroundFrailty has been recognized as a growing issue in older adults, with recent evidence showing that this condition heralds several health-related problems, including cognitive decline. The objective of this work is to determine if frailty is

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Classification of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia using routine clinical and cognitive measures across multicentric underrepresented samples: a cross sectional observational studyResearch in context

Autor: Marcelo Adrián Maito, Hernando Santamaría-García, Sebastián Moguilner, Katherine L. Possin, María E. Godoy, José Alberto Avila-Funes, María I. Behrens, Ignacio L. Brusco, Martín A. Bruno, Juan F. Cardona, Nilton Custodio, Adolfo M. García, Shireen Javandel, Francisco Lopera, Diana L. Matallana, Bruce Miller, Maira Okada de Oliveira, Stefanie D. Pina-Escudero, Andrea Slachevsky, Ana L. Sosa Ortiz, Leonel T. Takada, Enzo Tagliazuchi, Victor Valcour, Jennifer S. Yokoyama, Agustín Ibañez

Publikováno v: The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, Vol 17, Iss , Pp 100387- (2023)

Summary: Background: Global brain health initiatives call for improving methods for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in underrepresented populations. However, diagnostic procedures in upper-middle-income cou

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Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis assessing the effectiveness of deprescribing in falls prevention in older people

Autor: Olive Kobusingye, Kenneth Madden, Jesper Ryg, Gustavo Duque, Leilei Duan, Ian Cameron, Clemens Becker, Chris Todd, Pip Logan, Nathalie van der Velde, Sirpa Hartikainen, Alice Nieuwboer, Luigi Ferrucci, Jacqueline Close, Stephen Lord, Cathie Sherrington, Ngaire Kerse, Jennifer Watt, Tischa van der Cammen, Matteo Cesari, Rose Anne Kenny, Luis Miguel Gutierrez-Robledo, Sallie Lamb, James Frith, Ellen Freiberger, Maw Pin Tan, Sebastiana Kalula, Koen Milisen, Tahir Masud, Joe Verghese, Mirko Petrovic, Dawn Skelton, Joost Daams, MEG MORRIS, Lotta J Seppala, Nellie Kamkar, Manuel M Montero-Odasso, Ellen Vlaeyen, Robert Bourke, Finbarr C. Martin, David R. Marsh, Hubert Blain, Cedric Anweiller, Alvaro Casas-Herrero, Javier Perez Jara, Christina Alonzo Bouzòn, Ana-Karim Welmer, Stephanie Birnghebuam, Reto Kressig, Manuel Montero-Odasso, Mark Speechley, Bill McIlroy, Susan Hunter, Richard Camicioli, Mireille Norris, Louise Mallet, David B. Hogan, Ervin Sejdic, Lewis Lipsitz, David A. Ganz, Neil B. Alexander, Fabiana Giber, Marcelo Schapira, Ricardo Jauregui, Felipe Melgar-Cuellar, Roberto Alves Lourenço, Monica Pierrucini, Alejandro Ceriani, Pedro Marín-Larraín, Homero Gac Espinola, José Fernando Gómez-Montes, Carlos Alberto Cano-Gutierrez, Xinia Ramirez Ulate, José Ernesto Picado Ovares, Patricio Gabriel Buendia, Susana Lucia Tito, Diego Martínez Padilla, Sara G. Aguilar-Navarro, Alberto Mimenza, Rogelio Moctezum, Alberto Avila-Funes, Luis Manuel Cornejo Alemán, Edgar Aguilera Caona, Juan Carlos Carbajal, José F. Parodi, Aldo Sgaravatti, Cathy Said, Ryota Sakurai, Chek Hooi Wong, Chang Won Won, Jeffrey Hausdorff

Publikováno v: BMJ Open, Vol 11, Iss 11 (2021)

Introduction One of the known risk factors for fall incidents is the use of specific medications, fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs). However, to date, there is uncertainty related to the effectiveness of deprescribing as a single intervention in fal

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The Multi-Partner Consortium to Expand Dementia Research in Latin America (ReDLat): Driving Multicentric Research and Implementation Science

Autor: Agustin Ibanez, Jennifer S. Yokoyama, Katherine L. Possin, Diana Matallana, Francisco Lopera, Ricardo Nitrini, Leonel T. Takada, Nilton Custodio, Ana Luisa Sosa Ortiz, José Alberto Avila-Funes, Maria Isabel Behrens, Andrea Slachevsky, Richard M. Myers, J. Nicholas Cochran, Luis Ignacio Brusco, Martin A. Bruno, Sonia M. D. Brucki, Stefanie Danielle Pina-Escudero, Maira Okada de Oliveira, Patricio Donnelly Kehoe, Adolfo M. Garcia, Juan Felipe Cardona, Hernando Santamaria-Garcia, Sebastian Moguilner, Claudia Duran-Aniotz, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Marcelo Maito, Erika Mariana Longoria Ibarrola, Maritza Pintado-Caipa, Maria Eugenia Godoy, Vera Bakman, Shireen Javandel, Kenneth S. Kosik, Victor Valcour, Bruce L. Miller

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Neurology, Vol 12 (2021)

Dementia is becoming increasingly prevalent in Latin America, contrasting with stable or declining rates in North America and Europe. This scenario places unprecedented clinical, social, and economic burden upon patients, families, and health systems

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A Lower CD4+/CD8+ Ratio Predicts Activities of Daily Living Decline Among Older Adults with HIV

Autor: Carlos Alberto Ruiz-Manriquez, Virgilio Hernández-Ruiz, Brenda E. Crabtree-Ramírez, Hélène Amieva, Jose Alberto Avila-Funes

Publikováno v: AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 38:863-868

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https://doi.org/10.1089/aid.2022.0080