Association of Depressive Symptoms With Postoperative Delirium and CSF Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease Among Hip Fracture Patients

CONCLUSIONS: In older adults undergoing hip fracture repair, depressive symptoms were associated with underlying AD pathology and postoperative delirium. Mild baseline depressive symptoms were the strongest predictor of postoperative delirium, and may represent a dementia prodrome.PMID:33640268 | DOI:10.1016/j.jagp.2021.02.001

Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - February 28, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Carol K Chan Frederick E Sieber Kaj Blennow Sharon K Inouye Geoffrey Kahn Jeannie-Marie S Leoutsakos Edward R Marcantonio Karin J Neufeld Paul B Rosenberg Nae-Yuh Wang Henrik Zetterberg Constantine G Lyketsos Esther S Oh Source Type: research