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Astronauts had higher rates of hip fracture after missions longer than 90 days, at rates similar to those seen in people on Earth 8 to 16.5 years older
mayoclinicproceedings.orgu/pubpophealth — 10 days ago
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Older adults with HIV were diagnosed with breast and colorectal cancer at the same stage as matched patients without HIV, contradicting earlier reports that HIV predicts later-stage diagnosis
tandfonline.comu/pubpophealth — 23 days ago
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Medicare patients who had an annual wellness visit received more mild cognitive impairment diagnoses than those who did not, but were not diagnosed with dementia any earlier
sciencedirect.comu/pubpophealth — 1 month ago
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A widely proposed pathway from hearing loss to cognitive decline, that poor hearing reduces social activity which in turn harms cognition, did not hold in a six-year study of 10,561 Mexican adults aged 50 and older once education and income were accounted for
onlinelibrary.wiley.comu/pubpophealth — 1 month ago
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Among Mexican-origin adults aged 74 and older, 5-year survival was higher in Mexico than in the United States at every level of illness, including 40.9% versus 36.6% among those with both diabetes and dementia and 77.5% versus 73.3% among those with neither
academic.oup.comu/pubpophealth — 2 months ago
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Outmigration to the US mainland topped 2.5% among Puerto Rico Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older in the year of Hurricane Maria regardless of health status, while those with a dementia diagnosis were slightly more likely to leave across 2012 to 2019
academic.oup.comu/pubpophealth — 2 months ago
Community health workers delivering telehealth coaching plus a structured feedback loop with doctors lowered long-term blood sugar by 1.0 percentage point more than usual care over 12 months, in a randomized trial of 257 uninsured Hispanic adults with diabetes
jamanetwork.comu/pubpophealth — 2 months ago
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MRI-guided prostate biopsy to monitor localized prostate cancer in the first year after diagnosis rose from under 1% in 2010–2011 to about 3–5% by 2018–2019 among older US men, staying low overall, with lower use among Black men than White men, a Medicare study finds
onlinelibrary.wiley.comu/pubpophealth — 2 months ago
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Only about 6% of endometrial cancer survivors under 52 were prescribed vaginal estrogen after diagnosis, and among those who were, roughly 2 years of use showed no increase in cancer recurrence compared with matched patients who did not use it
journals.lww.comu/pubpophealth — 2 months ago
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Older Mexican Americans with both pain and depressive symptoms scored about 4 points lower on a 30-point cognitive test than those with pain alone, but their cognition did not decline any faster over six years, a study of 935 adults found
link.springer.comu/pubpophealth — 3 months ago
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Medicare annual wellness visits were associated with more early diagnoses of mild cognitive impairment, and the cognitive check at the visit itself — not follow-up brain scans or specialist referrals — appeared to drive most of the effect, a study of about 133,000 Texas Medicare enrollees finds
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comu/pubpophealth — 3 months ago
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Average waits for child psychiatric care were 43 days at community health centers and 120 days at academic medical centers; Medicaid patients waited longer than self-pay patients at community centers and Blue Cross Blue Shield patients at academic centers
psychiatryonline.orgu/pubpophealth — 3 months ago
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Anxiety, depression, insomnia and substance use disorders became more common from 2014 to 2023 among more than 1 million people with chronic low back pain, with prevalence patterns differing by age and sex
journals.lww.comu/pubpophealth — 3 months ago
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Among 288,566 Texas Medicare decedents, those with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders spent a median 43 days in hospice versus 16 days among those without a mental health diagnosis, yet had lower odds of receiving a palliative care consultation
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comu/pubpophealth — 3 months ago
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Life expectancy at age 50 for US stroke survivors rose about 3 years between the late 1990s and late 2010s — nearly triple the gain in the general population — but survivors still live roughly 10 years less, an analysis of nearly 39,000 adults finds
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comu/pubpophealth — 3 months ago
A twice-weekly strength-training class was associated with lower total cholesterol (168 to 155 mg/dL) and self-reported gains in mobility, strength, and well-being among 227 adults aged 60 and older, in an uncontrolled 12-week study with no comparison group
mdpi.comu/Then_Marionberry_259 — 3 months ago
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Despite CDC and FDA warnings about overdose, fall, and fracture risk, the share of Medicare patients on long-term opioids also prescribed the nerve-pain drugs gabapentin or pregabalin held steady near 1 in 4 from 2017 to 2022, a study of nearly 11,000 beneficiaries finds
mdpi.comu/pubpophealth — 4 months ago
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Patients rated their doctors' communication quality higher for in-person visits than for telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, with every measured aspect of communication scoring lower over video or phone, a survey of 522 US adults who had both finds
journals.sagepub.comu/pubpophealth — 4 months ago
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Across 400,482 dementia research papers, senior men had the strongest publication and citation metrics; in a survey of 160 researchers, women reported more barriers despite similar productivity strategies
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comu/pubpophealth — 4 months ago
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In 15% of 196 NASA spaceflight missions from Apollo through 2024, crew experienced infections around launch, yet none led to a medical evacuation, severe in-orbit illness, or long-term health effects under NASA's pre-flight quarantine program
nature.comu/pubpophealth — 4 months ago