Diagnosis

The highest risk for diabetes is seen for those with hypertension and arterial stiffness, a new study has found.

Less than half of primary care physicians surveyed report being comfortable diagnosing mild cognitive impairment that’s due to Alzheimer’s disease. Fully 90% told researchers that it is “hard...

Nearly 100% of people who contract COVID-19 after close contact with omicron-infected patients are diagnosed within 10 days, investigators say.

Overestimation of blood pressure due to a too-small cuff size misclassified 39% of study participants as hypertensive, investigators report.

Slowing gait speed may signal the onset of dementia up to nine years before cognitive decline becomes evident, investigators say. It’s also linked to Alzheimer’s-related brain changes.

As a group, primary care providers and RNs misclassified UTIs about one-third of the time, an investigator tells McKnight’s. Nurses had greater odds of an incorrect assessment.

Diagnostic strategies with pretest probability-dependent D-dimer thresholds have highest efficiency, highest predicted failure rate

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment after late-life screenings may harm more older women than are helped — especially those with multiple comorbidities, investigators say.

Clinicians should identify strategies to alleviate the social impacts of dementia diagnoses and encourage patients to mobilize informal support networks, researchers say.

Undocumented dementia in nursing home residents who are transferred to acute care is linked to adverse outcomes, a new study finds. The good news is that acute care clinicians may now be recognizing dementia...