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Muscle fat: A new risk factor for cognitive decline?
“Increasing adiposity – or fat deposition – in skeletal muscles predicted faster cognitive decline, irrespective of demographics or other disease...
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Blood biomarker may help predict who will develop Alzheimer’s
At this point, the biomarker is a research tool, but its application in clinical practice “is not very far away.”
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Medicaid patients with heart failure get poor follow-up after hospital discharge
Both structural racism and problems with access are likely behind the low rates of follow-up care.
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Game-changing Alzheimer’s research: The latest on biomarkers
Molecular biomarkers are typically considered at a stage after clinical diagnosis, but the anticipated future availability of plasma biomarkers...
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Flavanol supplement improves memory in adults with poor diets
The evidence shows that consuming these nutrients might be associated with the hippocampal-dependent memory component of cognitive aging.
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Potential new treatment for REM sleep behavior disorder
The disorder can signal risk for synucleinopathies, a group of neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease that involve the formation of...