by Ket Patel | May 23, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Obesity
The odds of depression are significantly elevated for older, obese women and significantly decreased for older overweight men, a study of almost 8,000 adults found. The results of the study also held in a longitudinal analysis of the same cohort 5 years later. The...
by Ket Patel | May 20, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Alzheimer's Disease
Recurrent depression from midlife through late life increases the risk of vascular dementia, suggesting a progressive etiologic association with vascular disease, a large, long-term retrospective cohort study has shown. When depression begins only in late life, it...
by Ket Patel | May 19, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Depression
Recurrent depression from midlife through late life increases the risk of vascular dementia, suggesting a progressive etiologic association with vascular disease, a large, long-term retrospective cohort study has shown. When depression begins only in late life, it...
by Ket Patel | May 18, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Epilepsy
Women with epilepsy appear to have a significantly greater number of unintended pregnancies than does the general population and cite a wide variety of reasons for discontinuing different contraceptive methods, according to preliminary results from the Epilepsy Birth...
by Ket Patel | May 18, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders
Excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea remains a common and often debilitating problem, despite optimal use of continuous positive airway pressure treatment, according to Dr. Janine R.E. Vintch. The two drugs most beneficial as...
