Archives: January 2016

Higher Doses Vitamin D Associated with Increased Risk of Falls in 70+

Higher Doses Vitamin D Associated with Increased Risk of Falls in 70+ Higher monthly doses of vitamin D were associated had no benefit on low extremity function but did increase the risk of falls in patients 70 or older, according to an article published by JAMA Internal Medicine. Lower extremity...

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High Anxiety Increases Dementia Risk 48 Percent

High Anxiety Increases Dementia Risk 48 Percent People who experienced high anxiety any time in their lives had a 48 percent higher risk of developing dementia, according to a study led by USC researchers. The findings were based on an examination of 28 years of data from the Swedish Adoption...

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Happiness and Unhappiness No Direct Effect on Mortality

A study of a million UK women, published in The Lancet, has shown that happiness itself has no direct effect on mortality, and that the widespread but mistaken belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health came from studies that had simply confused cause and effect. Life-threatening poor health...

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Increasing Numbers of Older Adults in Substance Abuse Treatment

Recent years have seen an increase in their admission to substance abuse treatment and increased injection drug use among those over the age of 50. Researchers affiliated with New York University’s Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), and NYU’s School of Medicine (NYUSoM) recently studied trends for opioid...

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