Chronic Medical Disease and Cognitive Aging (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Healthy Body and Brain
Redaktion: Yaffe, Kristine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Chronic Medical Disease and Cognitive Aging: Toward a Healthy Body and Brain explores the important and often overlooked connection between how chronic medical diseases of the body can affect cognitive function and brain health. As population demographics shift to that of an aging population it has become more important to understand and improve cognitive function in late life. Chronic medical diseases often increase the risk of cognitive impairment, and those with cognitive impairment may be less able to effectively manage their medical conditions, suggesting a reciprocal relationship may exist where medical disease impacts cognition that in turn may exacerbate physical health. Chronic Medical Disease and Cognitive Aging discusses current research on the association between a variety of chronic medical diseases and cognition and, where appropriate, promising interventions or accepted treatment strategies. While a cure for many diseases continues to be elusive, insights garnered from the interplay between diseases of the body and mind may help point the way to novel therapeutic strategies to improve cognitive function in late life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199793662
• Artikelnr.: 40175411

Autorenporträt

Kristine Yaffe, MD, is a Roy and Marie Scola Endowed Chair in Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry, neurology, and epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco and Director of the Memory Disorders clinic at San Francisco Veteran's Administration Medical Center. Dr. Yaffe's research focuses on determining predictors, biological mechanisms, and outcomes of cognitive decline and dementia in older adults, with the goal of identifying modifiable risk factors that may lead to novel strategies to prevent cognitive decline. She has received numerous grants from the NIH, DOD and private foundations and has published over 200 articles in prestigious journals.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction Kristine Yaffe
MD * Chapter 1 Epidemiological insights into blood pressure and cognitive disorders Lenore J. Launder
PhD * Chapter 2 Cholesterol
Statins
and Late-life cognitive disorders Alina Solomon
MD
PhD and Miia Kivipelto
MD
PhD * Chapter 3 Cardiovascular Disease and Cognitive Aging Angela L. Jefferson
PhD
and Melissa Thompson
DVM * Chapter 4 Obesity and Cognitive Health: Implications of an Altered Adiposity Milieu over the Lifecourse Rachel A. Whitmer
PhD and Deborah R. Gustafson
MS
PhD * Chapter 5 Insulin Resistance and Pathological Brain Aging Brenna Cholerton
PhD
Laura D. Baker
Ph.D.
and Suzanne Craft
PhD * Chapter 6 Metabolic Syndrome
other Composite Vascular Risk Scores
and Cognitive Impairment José Alejandro Luchsinger
MD
MPH * Chapter 7 Chronic Kidney Disease and Cognitive Aging Manjula Kurella Tamura
MD
MPH * Chapter 8 Sleep Disorders and Cognitive Function in Older Adults Adam P. Spira
PhD
and Sonia Ancoli-Israel
PhD * Chapter 9 Physical Activity and Cognitive Aging Deborah E. Barnes
PhD
MPM
and Nicola T. Lautenschlager MD * Chapter 10 Dietary Patterns and Dementia Pascale Barber-Gateau
MD
PhD
Catherine Féart PhD
and Cécilia Samieri PhD * Chapter 11 Inflammation and Cognitive Decline Róisín Gallinagh Smith
Stephen Todd
MD and Peter A. Passmore
MD * Chapter 12 HIV Infection and Aging: An Emerging Chronic Medical Illness Lauren Wendelken
MA and Victor Valcour
MD * Chapter 13 Postoperative Delirium and Cognitive Decline Jacqueline M. Leung
MD
MPH and Tiffany L. Tsai