Recent publications on Aging & Brain Health

Tsoi KK, Chan JY, Hirai HW, Wong SY, Kwok TC. Cognitive tests to detect dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Sep 1;175(9):1450-8. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2152. PubMed

Flanagan M, Larson EB, Latimer CS, Cholerton B, Crane PK, Montine KS, White LR, Keene CD, Montine T. Clinical pathologic correlation and vascular cognitive impairment and dementia. Biochim Biophys Act. 2015; pii: S0925-4439(15)00256-2. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2015.08.019. [Epub 2015 Aug 28]. PubMed

Flanagan M, Larson EB, Latimer CS, Cholerton B, Crane PK, Montine KS, White LR, Dirk Keene C, Montine TJ. Clinical-pathologic correlations in vascular cognitive impairment and dementia. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2015 Aug 28. pii: S0925-4439(15)00256-2. doi: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2015.08.019. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Dublin S, Walker RL, Gray SL, Hubbard RA, Anderson ML, Yu O, Crane PK, Larson EB. Prescription opioids and risk of dementia or cognitive decline: a prospective cohort study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Aug;63(8):1519-26. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13562. PubMed

Rosenberg DE, Bellettiere J, Gardiner PA, Villarreal VN, Crist K, Kerr J. Independent associations between sedentary behaviors and mental, cognitive, physical, and functional health among older adults in retirement communities. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2015 Aug 13. pii: glv103. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

King D, Allen P, Jones D, Marquez DX, Brown D, Rosenberg D, Janicek S, Allen L, Belza B. Safe, affordable, convenient: environmental features of malls and other public spaces used by older adults for walking. J Phys Act Health. 2015 Jul 14. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Bell CL, LaCroix AZ, Desai M, Hedlin H, Rapp SR, Cene C, Savla J, Shippee T, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Stefanick ML, Masaki K. Factors associated with nursing home admission after stroke in older women. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2015 Jul 10. pii: S1052-3057(15)00338-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2015.06.013. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Burke BT, Köttgen A, Law A, Windham BG, Segev D, Baer AN, Coresh J, McAdams-DeMarco MA. Physical function, hyperuricemia and gout in older adults enrolled in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Cohort Study. Arthritis Care Res. 2015 Jul 2. PubMed

Chaudhuri S, Kneale L, Le T, Phelan E, Thompson H, Rosenberg D, Demiris G. Older adults’ perceptions of fall detection devices.  J Appl Gerontol. 2017 Aug;36(8):915-930. doi: 10.1177/0733464815591211. Epub 2015 Jun 24. PubMed

Hohman TJ, Cooke-Bailey JN, Reitz C, Jun G, Naj A, Beecham GW, Liu Z, Carney RM, Vance JM, Cuccaro ML, Rajbhandary R, Vardarajan BN, Wang LS, Valladares O, Lin CF, Larson EB, Graff-Radford NR, Evans D, De Jager PL, Crane PK, Buxbaum JD, Murrell JR, Raj T, Ertekin-Taner N, Logue MW, Baldwin CT, Green RC, Barnes LL, Cantwell LB, Fallin MD, Go RC, Griffith P, Obisesan TO, Manly JJ, Lunetta KL, Kamboh MI, Lopez OL, Bennett DA, Hardy J, Hendrie HC, Hall KS, Goate AM, Lang R, Byrd GS, Kukull WA, Foroud TM, Farrer LA, Martin ER, Pericak-Vance MA, Schellenberg GD, Mayeux R, Haines JL, Thornton-Wells TA; Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium. Global and local ancestry in African-Americans: implications for Alzheimer's disease risk. Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Jun 16. pii: S1552-5260(15)00190-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.02.012. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Mukherjee S, Walter S, Kauwe JS, Saykin AJ, Bennett DA, Larson EB, Crane PK, Glymour MM; Adult Changes in Thought Study Investigators; Religious Orders Study/Memory and Aging Project Investigators; Alzheimer's Disease Genetics Consortium. Genetically predicted body mass index and Alzheimer’s disease-related phenotypes in three large samples: Mendelian randomization analyses. Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Jun 12. pii: S1552-5260(15)00184-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.05.015. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Ostergaard SD, Mukherjee S, Sharp SJ, Proitsi P, Lotta LA, Day F, Perry JR, Boehme KL, Walter S, Kauwe JS, Gibbons LE, Larson EB, Powell JF, Langenberg C, Crane PK, Wareham NJ, Scott RA. Associations between potentially modifiable risk factors and Alzheimer disease: a Mendelian randomization study. PLoS Med. 2015 16;12(6):e1001841. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001841. eCollection 2015 Jun.  PubMed

Gell NM, Wallace RB, LaCroix AZ, Mroz TM, Patel KV. Mobility device use in older adults and incidence of falls and worry about falling: findings from the 2011-2012 National Health and Aging Trends study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 May 6. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13393. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Otte JL, Rand KL, Landis CA, Paudel ML, Newton KM, Woods N, Carpenter JS. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in women with hot flashes.  Menopause. 2015 May 4. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Aneke-Nash CS, Parrinello CM, Rajpathak SN, Rohan TE, Strotmeyer ES, Kritchevsky SB, Psaty BM, Buzkova P, Kizer JR, Newman AB, Strickler HD, Kaplan RC. Changes in insulin-like growth factor-I and its binding proteins are associated with diabetes mellitus in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015;63(5):902-9. doi: 10.1111/jgs.13390.  PubMed

Steinberg BA, Greiner MA, Hammill BG, Curtis LH, Benjamin EJ, Heckbert SR, Piccini JP. Contraindications to anticoagulation therapy and eligibility for novel anticoagulants in older patients with atrial fibrillation. Cardiovasc Ther. 2015 Apr 30. doi: 10.1111/1755-5922.12129. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Miyawaki CE. Association of filial responsibility, ethnicity, and acculturation among Japanese American family caregivers of older adults. J Appl Gerontol. 2015 Apr 16. pii: 0733464815581484 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Desikan RS, Schork AJ, Wang Y, Thompson WK, Dehghan A, Ridker PM, Chasman DI, McEvoy LK, Holland D, Chen CH, Karow DS, Brewer JB, Hess CP, Williams J, Sims R, O'Donovan MC, Choi SH, Bis JC, Ikram MA, Gudnason V, DeStefano AL, van der Lee SJ, Psaty BM, van Duijn CM, Launer L, Seshadri S, Pericak-Vance MA, Mayeux R, Haines JL, Farrer LA, Hardy J, Ulstein ID, Aarsland D, Fladby T, White LR, Sando SB, Rongve A, Witoelar A, Djurovic S, Hyman BT, Snaedal J, Steinberg S, Stefansson H, Stefansson K, Schellenberg GD, Andreassen OA, Dale AM. Polygenic overlap between c-reactive protein, plasma lipids and Alzheimer's disease. Circulation. 2015 Apr 10. pii: CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015489. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Macheret F, Bartz TM, Djousse L, Ix JH, Mukamal KJ, Zieman SJ, Siscovick DS, Tracy RP, Heckbert SR, Psaty BM, Kizer JR. Higher circulating adiponectin levels are associated with increased risk of atrial fibrillation in older adults. Heart. 2015 Apr 8. pii: heartjnl-2014-307015. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2014-307015 [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Joffe H, LaCroix AZ, Cohen L. Concern about the use of venlafaxine to treat vasomotor symptoms-reply. JAMA Intern Med. 2015;175(4):658-9. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.7997.  PubMed