Category Archives: Aging

Traumatic brain injury may be an independent risk factor for stroke

Traumatic brain injury may be an independent risk factor for stroke James F. Burke, MD, MS, Jessica L. Stulc, MD, MPH, Lesli E. Skolarus, MD, MS, Erika D. Sears, MD, MS, Darin B. Zahuranec, MD, MS and Lewis B. Morgenstern, … Continue reading

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Vitamin D and risk of death from vascular and no… [Eur Heart J. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI

Eur Heart J. 2013 May;34(18):1365-74. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs426. Epub 2012 Dec 20. Vitamin D and risk of death from vascular and non-vascular causes in the Whitehall study and meta-analyses of 12,000 deaths. Tomson J, Emberson J, Hill M, Gordon A, Armitage … Continue reading

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Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in China, 1990–2010: a systematic review and analysis : The Lancet

“Our analysis suggests that previous estimates of dementia burden, based on smaller datasets, might have underestimated the burden of dementia in China.” Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in China, 1990—2010: a systematic review and analysis Kit … Continue reading

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Late-life depression is associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia.

Review article Late-life depression and risk of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of community-based cohort studies Breno S. Diniz, Meryl A. Butters, Steven M. Albert, Mary Amanda Dew and Charles F. Reynolds 3rd + Author Affiliations … Continue reading

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Adults with depression and who take specific anti-depressants more likely to develop C. difficile

Interesting applied psychoimmunology study. Apparently depressed people’s guts don’t watch direct-to-consumer chemical-imbalance ads. Here is the abstract. Depression, antidepressant medications, and risk of Clostridium difficile infection Mary A M Rogers1*, M Todd Greene1, Vincent B Young1, Sanjay Saint1,2, Kenneth M … Continue reading

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Maurice Preter, MD

Maurice Preter, MD is a European and U.S. educated psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, neurologist, and medical-legal expert in private practice in Manhattan. He is also the principal of Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, PLLC, a medical concierge service and health advisory for select individuals and families.