Little is known about dementia incidence in diverse populations of oldest-old, the age group with highest dementia incidence.
Methods
Incident dementia diagnoses from 1/1/2010 to 9/30/2015 were abstracted from medical records for 2350 members of an integrated health care system in California (n = 1702 whites, n = 375 blacks, n = 105 Latinos, n = 168 Asians) aged ≥90 in 2010. We estimated race/ethnicity-specific age-adjusted dementia incidence rates and implemented Cox proportional hazards models and Fine and Gray competing risk of death models adjusted for demographics and comorbidities in midlife and late-life.
Results
Dementia incidence rates (n = 771 cases) were lowest among Asians (89.9/1000 person-years), followed by whites (96.9/1000 person-years), Latinos (105.8/1000 person-years), and blacks (121.5/1000 person-years). Cox regression and competing risk models estimated 28% and 36% higher dementia risk for blacks versus whites adjusting for demographics and comorbidities.
Discussion
Patterns of racial/ethnic disparities in dementia seen in younger older adults continue after the age of 90 years, though smaller in magnitude. 相似文献
Objective: Depression afflicts 14% of individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Depression is a robust risk factor for dementia but it is unknown if this holds true for individuals with T1D, who recently started living to an age conferring dementia risk. We examined if depression is a dementia risk factor among elderly individuals with T1D.
Methods: 3,742 individuals with T1D age ≥50 were followed for dementia from 1/1/96-9/30/2015. Depression, dementia, and comorbidities were abstracted from electronic medical records. Cox proportional hazard models estimated the association between depression and dementia adjusting for demographics, glycosylated hemoglobin, severe dysglycemic epidsodes, stroke, heart disease, nephropathy, and end stage renal disease. The cumulative incidence of dementia by depression was estimated conditional on survival dementia-free to age 55.
Results: Five percent (N = 182) were diagnosed with dementia and 20% had baseline depression. Depression was associated with a 72% increase in dementia (fully adjusted HR = 1.72; 95% CI:1.12-2.65). The 25-year cumulative incidence of dementia was more than double for those with versus without depression (27% vs. 12%).
Conclusions: For people with T1D, depression significantly increases dementia risk. Given the pervasiveness of depression in T1D, this has major implications for successful aging in this population recently living to old age. 相似文献
OBJECTIVE: The study aims to verify whether phonologic and rapid automatized naming (RAN) deficits are present and associated in Italian dyslexic children and whether they differentially affect dyslexics with and without a history of previous language delay (LD). BACKGROUND: According to the phonologic core deficit hypothesis, dyslexia may stem from impairment of the representation and manipulation of phonemes and may be closely associated with oral language deficits. However, deficits in tasks not requiring fine-grained phonologic representations, such as RAN, have also been described in dyslexic children. METHODS: Thirty-seven children were selected on the basis of a reading deficit and were assigned to 2 groups according to whether or not they had a history of early LD as determined retrospectively by parental report. A battery of reading and writing, verbal working memory, metaphonologic, RAN, and visual search tests were administered. RESULTS: RAN deficits were shared by most dyslexics (with and without a history of LD), whereas phonologic deficits were mainly associated with a previous LD. This last condition did not result in a more profound impairment of reading and writing decoding skills. CONCLUSION: In a shallow orthography such as Italian, RAN, not phonologic deficits, may represent the main cognitive marker of developmental dyslexia. 相似文献
BACKGROUND: The recurrent chronic orofacial swelling caused by orofacial granulomatosis (OFG) can cause significant cosmetic and functional problems but can be prevented if the disease is diagnosed early and promptly treated. Although the enlargement of the lips is described to be the most common presenting complaint, the clinical onset of OFG may be characterized by minor associated mucosal and neurological manifestations, making early diagnosis very difficult or, sometimes, merely presumable. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the clinical manifestations of 19 patients with OFG, who were examined at our institution between 1998 and 2002, in order to determine their initial manifestations and presenting symptoms. RESULTS: A total of 10 patients showed classical recurrent enlargement of the lips (six lower; four upper) as presenting symptom. In the other nine patients, OFG onset was characterized by transient unilateral facial nerve palsy (two cases), intraoral manifestations (two cases), recurrent swelling of the periorbital area (two cases), of the chin (one case), of the zygomatic area (one case), and of the cheeks (one case). CONCLUSION: Our data underlined that OFG onset could be frequently characterized by widely variable, multiform, and temporary clinical findings. Involvement of atypical sites of the orofacial region and presence of single minor manifestations may occur as presenting symptoms, often preceding the development of traditional clinical findings. 相似文献
Human adult endothelial cells were enzymatically harvested from adipose tissue. Cell viability was established by Trypan blue exclusion and transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Endothelial cells were identified by immunocytochemical investigation at light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. Isolated cells were positive for actin and vimentin, negative for desmin. Factor VIII RA was mainly expressed at cell surface and occasionally disclosed in the cytoplasm. Reactivity for UEA I and J15 was weak or undetectable. Human endothelial cells were seeded and left to adhere for one hour onto different nonvascular substrates (glass, poly-l-lysine, formvar-carbon, fibronectin, Teflon). Scanning electron microscopy defined surface features, suggesting tenacious cell adhesion on the substrate. Different vascular substrates were tested (preclotted Dacron, albumin Dacron, Hemashield Dacron, Gelseal Dacron, ePTFE, fibronectin-ePTFE). Commercially available coated grafts showed qualitative and quantitative differences in cell adhesion. In particular, Gelseal Dacron provided the best quantitative results, even though a wide variability was observed. In contrast, fibronectin-coated ePTFE gave more reliable results and high spreading efficiency. In the short term, coated grafts do not seem to offer greater advantages than fibronectin-coated ePTFE. However, specific incubation times for each coated graft should be selected and the long-term approach (graft culture) should also be attempted. 相似文献
Dextromethorphan (DM), a noncompetitive NMDA antagonist, has been demonstrated to reduce ischemic neuronal damage and edema, but DM's influence on cerebral blood flow has not been extensively studied. In this investigation, it is shown that DM has significant effects on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) patterns in a rabbit model of focal cerebral ischemia. rCBF was measured using radioactive microspheres following a 1 h permanent occlusion of the left internal carotid, anterior cerebral, and middle cerebral arteries in rabbits. Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) were used to assess the degree of ischemia; only animals where SEPs were completely abolished were used for a frequency distribution analysis of rCBF. It was found that there were significantly more regions with lower flows in animals treated with normal saline (NS) (n = 7) compared to animals treated with DM (n = 7) (p less than 0.05, ipsilateral left side; p less than 0.001, contralateral right side). The frequency distribution medians were 27.5 ml 100 g-1 min-1 (left) and 70.0 ml 100 g-1 min-1 (right) in the NS group vs. 34.5 ml 100 g-1 min-1 (left) and 80.5 ml 100 g-1 min-1 (right) in the DM group. The left and right hemispheric regional means were 29.4 +/- 20 and 74.3 +/- 23 ml 100 g-1 min-1, respectively, in the NS group vs. 34.4 +/- 16 and 91.0 +/- 28 ml 100 g-1 min-1, respectively, in the DM group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) 相似文献
The diagnostic contributions of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging were compared in 12 patients with benign intratemporal vascular tumors (hemangioma or vascular malformation). The tumors included six in the internal acoustic canal and six in the geniculate ganglion region. Clinical and histologic correlations were made. Two of the six patients with tumors in the internal acoustic canal underwent CT, and both required gas cisternography to show the tumor. Five patients in that group underwent MR imaging, and all five studies showed the tumor. All six patients with geniculate ganglion tumors underwent CT. Results in one study were questionable, and five showed the tumor. Five patients in this group underwent MR imaging, but the MR findings were positive in only two cases. MR imaging should therefore be performed before CT in the evaluation of facial nerve dysfunction, as it demonstrated all tumors in the internal acoustic canal and some in the geniculate ganglion region. If MR findings are negative, CT should then be performed to rule out a possible geniculate ganglion lesion. 相似文献