Jeff D. Williamson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the cross-sectional relation between three measures of renal function and performance on four measures of cognitive function in the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Memory in Diabetes (ACCORD-MIND) study and found that decreased cognitive function was associated with kidney disease as measured by albumin/creatinine ratio, a measure of microvascular endothelial pathology, and cystatin C, a marker of eGFR.

TL;DR: Hip fracture is common among elderly community-dwelling women and is associated with difficulty in performing activities of daily living and is significantly more likely to report difficulty performing 11 activities that map into domains of mobility/exercise tolerance, self-care tasks and higher functioning domains.

TL;DR: Treatment of systolic hypertension is most effective in older patients who, because of additional risk factors or prevalent CVD, are at higher risk of developing a cardiovascular event and are prime candidates for antihypertensive treatment.

TL;DR: The missing data are not missing completely at random in ADNI and likely conditional on certain features in addition to cognitive function, which may help in the design of future longitudinal studies and clinical trials in AD.

TL;DR: The relationship between urine albumin:creatinine ratio (UACR), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and cerebral MRI volumes in 263 AAs with type 2 diabetes was examined to find albuminuria to be a better marker of cerebral structural changes than eGFR in A as with type 1 diabetes.