Geriatrics

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Investigators found as much as a 2-fold difference in being diagnosed with dementia across the US, even after controlling for common individual risk factors.

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Continuous statin use among adults aged 75 years and older resulted in a mean relative risk reduction in CVD of 28% without heightened safety concerns, a new study found.

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Nearly one-third of US adults aged 60 years and older continue to take daily aspirin despite published evidence recommending against use in the absence of CVD.

More than 1 in 10 older adults were misdiagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia and nearly all were treated with a full course of antibiotics, a new study found.

Older adults with a history of migraine, in contrast, were at no greater risk of an automotive crash than those without prevalent migraine, according to new study results.

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In adults older than age 65 years with T2D, a simple clinical decision support tool plus shared decision making reduced hypoglycemic episodes by half.