Chronic disease treatments effective in people with multiple comorbidities: study
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Alicia Lasek
Jun 07, 2023
Investigators found no evidence that comorbidities changed treatment efficacy across any of 23 conditions studied, including dementia, diabetes, hypertension and osteoporosis.
CVS report finds more seniors facing chronic conditions
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Alicia Lasek
Apr 17, 2023
Healthcare providers will need to handle not only growing need, but care that’s more complex, the authors of a spring 2023 health trends report say.
Help prevent dementia by managing multimorbidity, researchers counsel
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Alicia Lasek
Dec 05, 2022
There are 15% higher odds of later developing dementia with each added chronic condition, investigators say.
Researcher: In terms of aging, muscle weakness may be the ‘new smoking’
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 14, 2022
Lower grip strength is linked to signs of biological aging. Like smoking, it is a powerful predictor of disease and mortality, investigators say.
Seniors need 5+ hours of nightly sleep to prevent chronic disease, 25-year study suggests
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 19, 2022
Five hours or less of sleep each night is a recipe for multimorbidity in seniors, the authors of a long-term study contend.
Multimorbidity may up seniors’ dementia risk by 63 percent over 15 years
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Alicia Lasek
Oct 03, 2022
Identifying high-risk disease clusters could help clinicians to better target patients for dementia care, researchers say.
The impact of chronic disease and the inequitable burden of COVID-19 must be addressed as the U.S. moves into a new pandemic phase, two experts contend.
Managing Alzheimer’s as chronic disease will require clinician, patient education, docs say
May 03, 2022
Most primary care physicians foresee a time when dementia is managed as a chronic disease, new surveys from Quest Diagnostics have found.
Pharmacists poised to continue transition into direct care roles, survey finds
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 25, 2022
Pharmacists will continue to move into central roles in healthcare, including chronic disease management in the adult patient population, the authors say.
Next COVID-19 wave may be chronic lung disease, study suggests
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Alicia Lasek
Jan 06, 2022
Even mild COVID-19 may adversely affect the lungs, as found in a sample of relatively healthy individuals from the general population, investigators report.
