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Early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease by targeting toxic soluble A? oligomers

Medical Xpress

This figure is expected to almost double every 20 years, reaching 78 million in 2030 and 139 million in 2050. trillion by 2030. More than 55 million people worldwide were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2020, according to Alzheimer's Disease International. trillion and anticipated to rise to $2.8

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Factors Associated with Annual Vision Screening in Diabetic Adults: Analysis of the 2019 National Health Interview Survey [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design: Data from adults 18 years of age and older relevant to self-reported non-gestational diabetes diagnosis and eye exam within the last 12 months were extracted from the 2019 NHIS dataset.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

All of them are going to be over 65 by 2030, so if you figure a quarter of those have diabetes, I call it the silver tsunami that’s coming into the palliative care geriatrics world, so these are topics that are going to be really important to all of us. And just with the aging population, baby boomers are going to be hitting 65.

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Colorectal Cancer in Younger Individuals & The Importance of Hereditary Cancer Testing 

Myriad Genetics

Further, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association , colorectal cancer is estimated to become the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among younger adults (ages 20 to 49) in the United States by 2030. The cancer had come back and was not responding to the same treatment as his initial diagnosis. Today, J.J.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Eric: Oh, wow.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

And then usually what we try and do is in order to make this more feasible, rather than clicking through 2030, predictors for busy clinicians, is perform some type of variable selection so that we can come up with a more simplified model. You include things like comorbidities, age, functional status falls, some other variables.

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