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2. Clinical Dementia Rating - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, early and accurate diagnosis of dementia and staging can be essential to proper clinical care. Without the ability to reliably assess dementia across the board, the misuse of anti-dementia compounds could have negative consequences, such as patients receiving the wrong medication, or not receiving treatment in the early stages of ...

3. Medication Appropriateness Tool for Comorbid Health ...

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   The Dementia Training Australia funding an interactive online education package for deprescribing in dementia centered around the MATCH-D. It was a joint collaboration between the University of Western Australia, University of Tasmania, La Trobe University, Monash University, Alfred Health and FireFilms.

4. Metformin - Wikipedia

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   Metformin inhibits cyclic AMP production, blocking the action of glucagon, and thereby reducing fasting glucose levels. [117] Metformin also induces a profound shift in the faecal microbial community profile in diabetic mice, and this may contribute to its mode of action possibly through an effect on glucagon-like peptide-1 secretion. [108]

5. About 4% of US adults age 65 and older have a dementia ...

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   Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national survey released on ...

6. Diabetes management - Wikipedia

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   Metformin is an example of a class of medicine called biguanides. [34] The medication works by reducing the new creation of glucose from the liver and by reducing absorption of sugar from food. [34] In addition, the medication also works to help increase the effects of insulin on muscle cells, which take in glucose. [35]

7. A Common Drug Could Lower Your Dementia Risk By 35 ... - AOL

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   Not only that, they had a 52 percent lower risk of vascular dementia, and a 39 percent lower risk of Alzheimer’s dementia. People who took SGLT-2 inhibitors for longer periods of time seemed to ...