Cognitive impairment in patients with end-stage renal disease: Accelerated brain aging?

CONCLUSIONS: Overall, differences in cognitive functions, cortical volumes/thickness and white matter integrity associated with dialysis are also cognitive domains and brain structure changes associated with normal aging. In other words, non-demented, independently living dialysis patients present an accelerated brain aging phenotype even after taking into account effects of age, diabetes and depression.
PMID: 30744935 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: J Formos Med Assoc - February 7, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Chiu YL, Tsai HH, Lai YJ, Tseng HY, Wu YW, Peng YS, Chiu CM, Chuang YF Tags: J Formos Med Assoc Source Type: research