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Specific Antipsychotics Linked to Increased Pneumonia Risk
Only the use of antipsychotics with high anticholinergic potency was associated with pneumonia risk.
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Medication Overuse in Mental Health Facilities: Not the Answer, Regardless of Consent, Says Ethicist
Antipsychotic drugs substitute for the inability to provide adequate numbers of people to provide care in safe environments.
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Study Links Suicide to Missed Early Care After Discharge
Evidence of discharge communication between the inpatient facility and primary care clinician was infrequent, highlighting a gap in continuity of...
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Prostate Meds Tied to Reduced Risk for Lewy Body Dementia
Men who took alpha-1 blockers terazosin, doxazosin, or alfuzosin were less likely to develop Lewy body dementia.
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Chronic Loneliness Tied to Increased Stroke Risk
Participants who reported having consistently high loneliness across both measured time points had a 56% increased risk for incident stroke.
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Six Distinct Subtypes of Depression, Anxiety Identified via Brain Imaging
“Importantly for clinical translation, these biotypes predict response to different pharmacological and behavioral interventions.”
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Psychiatric Comorbidity Tied to Early Mortality in Anorexia
About half of the sample with anorexia (47%) had a psychiatric comorbidity, which is associated with a 7.7% mortality risk at 10 years.
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What Toxic Stress Can Do to Health
Stress from adverse childhood experiences, which can have endocrine and other impacts, may be treated with a multidisciplinary team.
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The Management of Anxiety in Primary Care
SSRIs are good to reach for first but most patients with anxiety would benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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Better Sleep Tied to Less Loneliness
“Social awareness and social initiation would appear to be affected by sleep quality, therefore potentially leading, at least in part, to...
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Emergency Department Visits for Suicide Attempts Rise Across the United States
The number of ED visits owing to suicide attempts and intentional self-harm increased from 1.43 million in 2011-2012 to 5.37 million in 2019-2020...