Exposure to air pollution in relation to risk of dementia and related outcomes: an updated systematic review of the epidemiological literature

J Weuve, EE Bennett, L Ranker… - Environmental …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Dementia is a devastating neurologic condition that is common in older adults.
We previously reviewed the epidemiological evidence examining the hypothesis that long …

Optimising the use of electronic medical records for large scale research in psychiatry

D Newby, N Taylor, DW Joyce… - Translational Psychiatry, 2024 - nature.com
The explosion and abundance of digital data could facilitate large-scale research for
psychiatry and mental health. Research using so-called “real world data”—such as …

Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors in men with erectile dysfunction and the risk of Alzheimer disease: a cohort study

M Adesuyan, YH Jani, D Alsugeir, R Howard, C Ju… - Neurology, 2024 - neurology.org
Background and Objectives Repurposing phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5Is) as
drugs for Alzheimer disease (AD) risk reduction has shown promise based on animal …

Inflammatory diseases, inflammatory biomarkers, and Alzheimer disease: an observational analysis and Mendelian randomization

J Huang, B Su, V Karhunen, D Gill, V Zuber… - Neurology, 2023 - neurology.org
Background and Objectives Whether chronic autoimmune inflammatory diseases causally
affect the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) is controversial. We characterized the relationship …

Aged bone marrow macrophages drive systemic aging and age-related dysfunction via extracellular vesicle-mediated induction of paracrine senescence

J Hou, KX Chen, C He, XX Li, M Huang, YZ Jiang… - Nature Aging, 2024 - nature.com
The accumulation and systemic propagation of senescent cells contributes to physiological
aging and age-related pathology. However, which cell types are most susceptible to the …

South Asian, Black and White ethnicity and the effect of potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia: a study in English electronic health records

N Mukadam, L Marston, G Lewis, R Mathur, E Lowther… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction We aimed to investigate ethnic differences in the associations of potentially
modifiable risk factors with dementia. Methods We used anonymised data from English …

Causal evidence that herpes zoster vaccination prevents a proportion of dementia cases

M Eyting, M **e, S Heß, P Geldsetzer - medRxiv, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The root causes of dementia are still largely unclear, and the medical community lacks
highly effective preventive and therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for dementia despite …

Statin use and all-cause mortality in nursing home residents with and without dementia: a retrospective cohort study using claims data

JL O'Sullivan, R Kohl, S Lech, L Romanescu… - Neurology, 2024 - neurology.org
Background and Objectives Little is known about the benefits of statin therapy in older adults
with dementia. We aimed to evaluate the role of statin use for all-cause mortality in nursing …

Anticoagulant prescribing for atrial fibrillation and risk of incident dementia

SL Cadogan, E Powell, K Wing, AY Wong, L Smeeth… - Heart, 2021 - heart.bmj.com
Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the association between oral
anticoagulant type (direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) vs vitamin K antagonists (VKAs)) and …

Validity of acute cardiovascular outcome diagnoses recorded in European electronic health records: a systematic review

J Davidson, A Banerjee, R Muzambi… - Clinical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background Electronic health records are widely used in cardiovascular disease research.
We appraised the validity of stroke, acute coronary syndrome and heart failure diagnoses in …