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Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19 ’ s Effect On the Brain
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors started to notice something striking. For what was originally described as a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 seemed to have a strong effect on the brain, causing everything from loss of taste and smell and brain fog to, in serious cases, stroke. NYU Langone Health, a New York city research hospital, started collating those anecdotes in hopes of better understanding how the virus affects the brain and nervous system. Years later, the project has morphed from focusing solely on acute symptoms to also tracking the long-term neurologic issues that some people with Long COVID experience, sa...
Source: TIME: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Risks of neurological and psychiatric sequelae 2 years after hospitalisation or intensive care admission with COVID-19 compared to admissions for other causes
Brain Behav Immun. 2023 May 30:S0889-1591(23)00132-0. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2023.05.014. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe association between COVID-19 and subsequent neurological and psychiatric disorders is well established. However, two important questions remain unanswered. First, what are the risks in those admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) with COVID-19? Admission to ICU is itself associated with neurological and psychiatric sequelae and it is not clear whether COVID-19 further increases those risks or changes their profile. Second, what are the trajectories of neurological and psychiatric risks in patients admitted...
Source: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - June 1, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Harriet Ley Zuzanna Skorniewska Paul J Harrison Maxime Taquet Source Type: research

Sex differences in clinical outcomes amongst 1105 patients admitted with hip fractures
AbstractAmongst hip fracture admissions, mortality is higher in men than in women. However, sex differences in other care-quality measures have not been well-documented. We aimed to examine sex differences in mortality as well as a wide range of underlying health indicators and clinical outcomes in adults  ≥ 60 year of age admitted with hip fractures from their own homes to a single NHS hospital between April-2009 and June-2019. Sex differences in delirium, length of stay (LOS) and mortality in hospital, readmission, and discharge destination, were examined by logistic regression. There were 7 87 women and 318 men o...
Source: Internal and Emergency Medicine - April 26, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research

Letter to the Editor: An isolated insular stroke mimics a bout of overt hepatic encephalopathy in a patient with cirrhosis
The manifestations of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) vary from mild neuropsychiatric abnormalities to coma 1,2. Diagnosis and differential diagnosis can be challenging, especially in the hospital setting, where patients may suffer from other metabolic encephalopathies or neurological/psychiatric disorders 1,2,3. Moreover, HE might also occur on top of pre-existing disease, such as dementia 1. Any potential HE precipitating factor should be identified and treated promptly 1. In patients with delirium and cirrhosis, even those with a working diagnosis of HE, a set of laboratory tests including a full blood count, glucose, elect...
Source: Journal of Hepatology - March 19, 2023 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Chiara Mangini, Roberta Gagliardi, Francesco Causin, Paolo Angeli, Sara Montagnese Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

An isolated insular stroke mimics a bout of overt hepatic encephalopathy in a patient with cirrhosis
The manifestations of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) vary from mild neuropsychiatric abnormalities to coma.1,2 Diagnosis and differential diagnosis can be challenging, especially in the hospital setting, where patients may suffer from other metabolic encephalopathies or neurological/psychiatric disorders.1 –3 Moreover, HE might also occur on top of pre-existing disease, such as dementia.1 Any potential HE precipitating factor should be identified and treated promptly.1 In patients with delirium and cirrhosis, even those with a working diagnosis of HE, a set of laboratory tests including a full blood count, glucose, electrol...
Source: Journal of Hepatology - March 19, 2023 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Chiara Mangini, Roberta Gagliardi, Francesco Causin, Paolo Angeli, Sara Montagnese Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Validity of stroke severity assessment using medical records in a population-based cohort
Initial stroke severity is an important prognostic factor for outcome after acute stroke, in terms of functional dependency, post-stroke dementia, and mortality.1,2 Whilst the majority of stroke patients who are admitted to the hospital with stroke have substantial neurological deficits, over half of all strokes that occur in the population qualify as minor stroke,3 and are managed often in outpatient care.4 Given the important differences between minor and major stroke in prognosis and management, it is important to distinguish patients on the basis of stroke severity, but assessment outside of specialised stroke centres ...
Source: Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases - February 18, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Jacqueline J. Claus, Brian B.P. Berghout, M. Kamran Ikram, Frank J. Wolters Source Type: research

Hospitalization With Infection Linked to Dementia Later in Life
People who are hospitalized with infection may have a greater risk of developing dementia later in life, astudy inJAMA Network Openhas found. The highest rates of dementia were found among people who had previously been hospitalized with respiratory, urinary tract, skin, blood and circulatory system, or hospital-acquired infections.Ryan T. Demmer, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and colleagues analyzed data from 15,688 people who enrolled in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study between 1987 and 1989. The participants had a mean age of 54.7 years at enrollment and were f...
Source: Psychiatr News - January 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Tags: circulatory system infections dementia hospital-acquired infections hospitalization JAMA Network Open older adults urinary tract infections Source Type: research

Sometimes a Difficult Decision to Swallow: Ethical Dilemmas When Patients with Dysphagia who Lack Capacity Want to Eat
Mr. J is an 82-year-old retired farmer with a preexisting diagnosis of moderate vascular dementia who recently suffered a stroke resulting in a new diagnosis of dysphagia and a loss of complex decision-making capacity. He is admitted to a hospital rehabilitation unit for a course of speech, physical and occupational therapy. His wife, Mrs. J, is his surrogate and has made clear that the couple's shared goals of care are for him to regain as much function as possible so he can return to his own home.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - October 19, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Meaghann S. Weaver, Cynthia M.A. Geppert Tags: Ethical Issues in Palliative Care Source Type: research

050 Feasibility of an automated assessment to measure cognition and mood in the acute stroke setting
Discussion Screening was adapted due to Covid pandemic and utilising remote consent and participa- tion allowed the project to continue.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - August 12, 2022 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Bell, S., Harkness, K., Roman, M., Gardner, J., Richards, E., Howe, J., Sikaonga, M., Mirheidari, B., Christensen, H., Blackburn, D. Tags: Poster presentations Source Type: research

Work stress and loss of years lived without chronic disease: an 18-year follow-up of 1.5 million employees in Denmark
AbstractWe aimed to examine the association between exposure to work stress and chronic disease incidence and loss of chronic disease-free life years in the Danish workforce. The study population included 1,592,491 employees, aged 30 –59 in 2000 and without prevalent chronic diseases. We assessed work stress as the combination of job strain and effort-reward imbalance using job exposure matrices. We used Cox regressions to estimate risk of incident hospital-diagnoses or death of chronic diseases (i.e., type 2 diabetes, coronar y heart disease, stroke, cancer, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, ...
Source: European Journal of Epidemiology - March 21, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research

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