Recent publications on Aging & Geriatrics

Unroe KT, Saliba D, Hickman SE, Zimmerman S, Levy C, Gurwitz J. Evaluation of medical therapies in the nursing home population: Gaps, challenges, and next steps. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Sep;72(9):2951-2956. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18829. Epub 2024 Mar 14. PubMed

Rosenberg DE, Zhu W, Greenwood-Hickman MA, Cook AJ, Florez Acevedo S, McClure JB, Arterburn DE, Cooper J, Owen N, Dunstan D, Perry SR, Yarborough L, Mettert KD, Green BB. Sitting Time Reduction and Blood Pressure in Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.  JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(3):e243234. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.3234.  PubMed

Mossa-Basha M, Andre JB, Yuh E, Hunt D, LaPiana N, Howlett B, Krakauer C, Crane P, Nelson J, DeZelar M, Meyers K, Larson E, Ralston J, Mac Donald CL. Comparison of brain imaging and physical health between research and clinical neuroimaging cohorts of ageing.  Br J Radiol. 2024;97(1155):614-621. doi: 10.1093/bjr/tqae004.  PubMed

Harrington LB, Ehlert AN, Thacker EL, Jenny NS, Lopez O, Cushman M, Olson NC, Fitzpatrick A, Mukamal KJ, Jensen MK. Levels of procoagulant factors and peak thrombin generation in relation to dementia risk in older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study.  Thromb Res. 2024;235:148-154. doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2024.01.024. Epub 2024 Feb 4.  PubMed

Reas ET, Triebswetter C, Banks SJ, McEvoy LK. Effects of APOE2 and APOE4 on brain microstructure in older adults: modification by age, sex, and cognitive status.  Alzheimers Res Ther. 2024;16(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s13195-023-01380-w.  PubMed

Cholerton B, Latimer CS, Crane PK, Corrada MM, Gibbons LE, Larson EB, Kawas CH, Keene CD, Montine TJ. Neuropathologic burden and dementia in nonagenarians and centenarians: Comparison of 2 community-based cohorts. Neurology. 2024;102(3):e208060. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000208060. Epub 2024 Jan 4.  PubMed

Posis AIB, Shadyab AH, Parada H, Alcaraz JE, Kremen WS, McEvoy LK. Multimorbidity, social engagement, and age-related cognitive decline in older adults from the Rancho Bernardo study of healthy aging. J Alzheimers Dis. 2024;97(4):1689-1702. doi: 10.3233/JAD-230809.  PubMed

Yaffe K, Vittinghoff E, Dublin S, Peltz CB, Fleckenstein LE, Rosenberg DE, Barnes DE, Balderson BH, Larson EB. Effect of personalized risk-reduction strategies on cognition and dementia risk profile among older adults: the SMARRT randomized clinical trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Jan 1;184(1):54-62. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.6279. PubMed

Tibiriçá L, Jester DJ, Kohn JN, Williams AP, McEvoy LK, Palmer BW. Perceived discrimination and nativity status: Risk of cognitive impairment among Latin American older adults. Int Psychogeriatr. 2024 Sep;36(9):818-830. doi: 10.1017/S1041610223004374. PubMed

Dublin S, Greenwood-Hickman MA, Karliner L, Hsu C, Coley RY, Colemon L, Carrasco A, King D, Grace A, Lee SJ, Walsh JME, Barrett T, Broussard J, Singh U, Idu A, Yaffe K, Boustani M, Barnes DE. The electronic health record Risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia Assessment Rule (eRADAR) Brain Health Trial: Protocol for an embedded, pragmatic clinical trial of a low-cost dementia detection algorithm.  Contemp Clin Trials. 2023;135:107356. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2023.107356. Epub 2023 Oct 17.  PubMed

Simone T, Peltz C, Rosenberg DE, Barnes DE, Fleckenstein LE, Dublin S, Yaffe K. The Impact of Pandemic-Related Restrictions on Dementia Risk Factors in Older Adults.  J Appl Gerontol. 2023 Nov 6:7334648231210671. doi: 10.1177/07334648231210671 [Epub ahead of print] PubMed

McEvoy LK, Bergstrom J, Hagler DJ, Wing D, Reas ET. Elevated pure tone thresholds predict altered microstructure in cortical areas related to auditory processing and attentional allocation. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023 Nov 6. doi: 10.3233/JAD-230767. Online ahead of print. PubMed

Hyde ET, Tuz-Zahra F, Moore CC, Natarajan L, Nguyen S, Greenwood-Hickman MA, Walker RL, Rosenberg DE, Bellettiere J. Agreement of step-based metrics from ActiGraph and activPAL accelerometers worn concurrently among older adults. J Meas Phys Behav. 2022 Dec;5(4):242-251. doi: 10.1123/jmpb.2022-0001. Epub 2022 Oct 11. PubMed

Lee AK, Lee SJ, Dublin S. Addressing the unique challenges in studies of long-term medication use and dementia risk. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Oct;71(10):3028-3030. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18583. Epub 2023 Sep 7. PubMed

Wang X, Sundermann EE, Buckley RF, Reas ET, McEvoy LK, Banks SJ; A4 Study Team. Sex differences in the associations of obesity with Tau, amyloid PET, and cognitive outcomes in preclinical Alzheimer's disease: Cross-sectional A4 study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023 Aug 7. doi: 10.3233/JAD-230466. Online ahead of print. PubMed

Balderson BH, Gray SL, Fujii MM, Nakata KG, Williamson BD, Cook AJ, Wellman R, Theis MK, Lewis CC, Key D, Phelan EA. A health-system-embedded deprescribing intervention targeting patients and providers to prevent falls in older adults (STOP-FALLS trial): Study protocol for a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2023 May 11;24(1):322. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07336-7. PubMed

Shapiro LN, Gray MF, Freitag C, Taneja P, Kariya H, Crane PK, O'Hare AM, Vig EK, Taylor JS. Expanding the ethnographic toolkit: Using medical documents to include kinless older adults living with dementia in qualitative research. J Aging Stud. 2023 Jun;65:101140. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2023.101140. Epub 2023 May 10. PubMed

Williams ME, Elman JA, Bell TR, Dale AM, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Franz CE, Gillespie NA, Hagler DJ Jr, Lyons MJ, McEvoy LK, Neale MC, Panizzon MS, Reynolds CA, Sanderson-Cimino M, Kremen WS. Higher cortical thickness/volume in Alzheimer's-related regions: protective factor or risk factor? Neurobiol Aging. 2023 May 9;129:185-194. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.05.004. PubMed

Ramirez M, Duran MC, Penfold RB, Pabiniak CJ, Hansen KE, Ornelas IJ. STAR-Caregivers virtual training and follow-up: A cultural adaptation for Latino caregivers of people with dementia. Transl Behav Med. 2023 Sep 12;13(9):625-634. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibad028. PubMed

Gibbons LE, Power MC, Walker RL, Kumar RG, Murphy A, Latimer CS, Nolan AL, Melief EJ, Beller A, Bogdani M, Keene D, Larson EB, Crane PK, Dams-O'Connor K. Association of traumatic brain injury with late life neuropathological outcomes in a community-based cohort. J Alzheimers Dis. 2023 Apr 28. doi: 10.3233/JAD-221224. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed