Association between sleep disorders and injury: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study   http://tinyurl.com/z3ta5z2   Chia-Ling Lin1,2, Chi-Hsiang Chung3, Yu-Hsia Tsai1,4, Wu-Chien Chien5,6   Author Affiliations   1School of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 2Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan 3Taiwanese Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Association, […]

Increasing Benzodiazepine Prescriptions and Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1996–2013   http://tinyurl.com/jqlst3n   Marcus A. Bachhuber, MD, MSHP, Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD, Chinazo O. Cunningham, MD, MS, and Joanna L. Starrels, MD, MS   Marcus A. Bachhuber, Chinazo O. Cunningham, and Joanna L. Starrels are with Division of General Internal Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert […]

  Association of Proton Pump Inhibitors With Risk of Dementia   A Pharmacoepidemiological Claims Data Analysis   http://tinyurl.com/zx9n3o8   Willy Gomm, PhD1; Klaus von Holt, MD, PhD1; Friederike Thomé, MSc1; Karl Broich, MD2; Wolfgang Maier, MD1,3; Anne Fink, MSc1,4; Gabriele Doblhammer, PhD1,4,5,6; Britta Haenisch, PhD1   [+] Author Affiliations   JAMA Neurol. Published online February 15, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2015.4791   ABSTRACT   Importance  Medications that influence the risk of dementia in the […]

  Midlife exercise blood pressure, heart rate, and fitness relate to brain volume 2 decades later   http://tinyurl.com/zzlgg8k   Nicole L. Spartano, PhD, Jayandra J. Himali, PhD, Alexa S. Beiser, PhD, Gregory D. Lewis, MD, Charles DeCarli, MD, Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD and Sudha Seshadri, MD +SHOW AFFILIATIONS | + SHOW FULL DISCLOSURES   Correspondence to Dr. Spartano: spartano@bu.edu Published online before […]

Association of arterial stiffness with progression of subclinical brain and cognitive disease.   http://tinyurl.com/jcqsplz   Tsao CW1, Himali JJ2, Beiser AS2, Larson MG2, DeCarli C2, Vasan RS2, Mitchell GF2, Seshadri S2. Author information Abstract OBJECTIVE: We tested whether abnormal arterial stiffness and blood pressure would be associated with progression of brain aging measured by brain […]