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Intensive behavioral therapy produces clinically meaningful weight loss in a primary care setting

Liraglutide Enhances Weight Loss With Intensive Behavioral Therapy

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Clinically meaningful weight loss seen over 56 weeks with IBT and 3.0 mg liraglutide
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concludes that the evidence is lacking and the balance of benefits and harms of cognitive impairment screening for older adults cannot be established. These findings form the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Feb. 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

USPSTF: Evidence Lacking for Cognitive Impairment Screening

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Evidence lacking for screening for community-dwelling older adults with no signs or symptoms
In older adults with abdominal obesity

Certain Factors May Increase Risk for Cognitive Decline in Elderly

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Adiponectin tied to risk for cognitive decline in those younger than 87 years of age without central obesity
A peer-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy-based intervention may improve quality of life among patients with diabetes and chronic pain

Cognitive Behavioral Program Benefits Patients With Diabetes

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Peer-delivered program tied to improvements in quality of life, physical activity, pain
Intensive systolic blood pressure control lowers the risk for major cardiovascular events

Intensive Systolic BP Control May Not Benefit All Older Adults

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No real benefit seen for adults ≥80 years with lower cognitive function
Both recent severe hypoglycemia and lifetime severe hypoglycemia are associated with worse cognition among older adults with type 1 diabetes

Severe Hypoglycemia in Seniors With T1DM May Worsen Cognition

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Findings seen for both recent and lifetime hypoglycemia among older adults with type 1 diabetes
For adults with posttraumatic stress disorder

Neither Psychotherapy Nor Medications Favored for PTSD

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Evidence insufficient to determine whether psychotherapy, medications are more effective
Individuals with objectively-defined subtle cognitive difficulties have faster amyloid accumulation and faster entorhinal cortical thinning compared with cognitively normal individuals

Subtle Cognitive Difficulties May Predict Amyloidosis

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Individuals with objectively-defined SCD have faster amyloid accumulation, entorhinal cortical thinning
Among older adults who have cardiovascular disease risk factors and cognitive impairments with no dementia

Aerobic Exercise May Slow Cognitive Decline in Older Adults

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Findings seen at one-year follow-up in older adults with cardiovascular risk factors, cognitive impairment
Playing analog games is associated with less relative cognitive decline

Playing Analog Games Tied to Less Relative Cognitive Decline

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Findings based on assessment from childhood to older age as well as from age 70 to 79 years