Thursday, March 9, 2017

Chronic comorbidities raise hospitalization risk in dementia

Chronic comorbidities raise hospitalization risk in dementia:

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Most community-dwelling older adults with dementia have multiple other chronic diseases, which are linked to increased risk of hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits, a new retrospective study has concluded. The study, by Luke Mondor and Colleen Maxwell of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Canada, and colleagues, is published in PLOS Medicine’s Special Issue on Dementia.


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