Search Results - "Pisacane, Nicoletta"
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Mild Cognitive Impairment: Epidemiology and Dementia Risk in an Elderly Italian Population
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-01-2008)“…OBJECTIVES: To investigate prevalence and incidence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its risk of progression to dementia in an elderly Italian…”
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Metabolic Syndrome and Risk of Dementia in Older Adults
Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (01-03-2010)“…OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between metabolic syndrome (MetS; a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors including abdominal obesity,…”
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Plasma tocopherols and risk of cognitive impairment in an elderly Italian cohort
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-05-2008)“…BACKGROUND: Evidence that vitamin E may preserve cognitive function in elderly subjects is conflicting. The most abundant and most investigated form of vitamin…”
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Prevalent Depressive Symptoms as a Risk Factor for Conversion to Mild Cognitive Impairment in an Elderly Italian Cohort
Published in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry (01-10-2008)“…Objective To examine the association between depressive symptoms and prevalent and incident mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in elderly individuals; to verify…”
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Development of an easy prognostic score for frailty outcomes in the aged
Published in Age and ageing (01-03-2008)“…Background: identification of frailty is recommended in geriatric practice. However, there is a lack of frailty scores combining easy-to-collect predictors…”
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A comparison of frailty indexes for prediction of adverse health outcomes in an elderly cohort
Published in Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (01-01-2012)“…Abstract This study aimed to compare the predictive accuracy for several frailty-related adverse health outcomes of a cumulative index derived from the Italian…”
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Blood homocysteine and risk of depression in the elderly
Published in Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (01-07-2010)“…Abstract We studied whether increased blood homocysteine is a predictor for incident depression in a population-based cohort aged ≥65. A total of 240 men and…”
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Blood inflammatory proteins and risk of incident depression in the elderly
Published in Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders (01-02-2010)“…It is unclear whether high levels of blood inflammatory proteins are associated with the risk of developing depression in late life. Blood C-reactive protein,…”
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Endogenous Sex Hormones as Risk Factors for Dementia in Elderly Men and Women
Published in The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences (01-09-2007)“…Background. The associations of endogenous sex hormones with risk of dementia in the elderly population are not well known. Methods. The relationship of…”
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Atrial fibrillation and risk of dementia in non-demented elderly subjects with and without mild cognitive impairment
Published in Neurological research (New York) (01-09-2006)“…Objectives: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is regarded as a precursor to dementia, but not all patients with MCI actually develop dementia. As Alzheimer and…”
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Plasma tocopherols and risk of cognitive impairment in an elderly Italian cohort1
Published in The American journal of clinical nutrition (01-05-2008)“…Evidence that vitamin E may preserve cognitive function in elderly subjects is conflicting. The most abundant and most investigated form of vitamin E in humans…”
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