Browsing by Author "Driver, Jane"

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    • cis p-tau: early driver of brain injury and tauopathy blocked by antibody 

      Kondo, Asami; Shahpasand, Koorosh; Mannix, Rebekah; Qiu, Jianhua; Moncaster, Juliet; Chen, Chun-Hau; Yao, Yandan; Lin, Yu-Min; Driver, Jane A; Sun, Yan; Wei, Shuo; Luo, Man-Li; Albayram, Onder; Huang, Pengyu; Rotenberg, Alexander; Ryo, Akihide; Goldstein, Lee E; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro; McKee, Ann C.; Meehan, William; Zhou, Xiao Zhen; Lu, Kun Ping (2015)
      Traumatic brain injury (TBI), characterized by acute neurological dysfunction, is one of the best known environmental risk factors for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), whose defining ...

    • The Clock-in-the-Box, a brief cognitive screen, is associated with failure to return home in an elderly hospitalized sample 

      Jackson, Colleen E; Grande, Laura J; Kelly, Brittany; Doherty, Kelly; Archambault, Elizabeth; Driver, Jane A; Milberg, William P; McGlinchey, Regina; Rudolph, James L (Dove Medical Press, 2016)
      Purpose Cognitive screening upon hospital admission can provide important information about the patient’s ability to process information during the inpatient stay. The Clock-in-the-Box (CIB) is a rapidly administered ...

    • Dementia Coding, Workup, and Treatment in the VA New England Healthcare System 

      Cho, Kelly; Gagnon, David R.; Driver, Jane A.; Altincatal, Arman; Kosik, Nicole; Lanes, Stephan; Lawler, Elizabeth V. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
      Growing evidence suggests that Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia are underdiagnosed and poorly documented. In our study, we describe patterns of dementia coding and treatment in the Veteran's Administration ...

    • Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer in Advanced Age: Prospective Cohort Study 

      Driver, Jane A.; Djoussé, Luc; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Gaziano, John Michael; Kurth, Tobias (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2008)
      Objective: To investigate the influence of increasing age on the incidence and remaining lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer in a cohort of older men. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: United States. ...

    • Inverse association between cancer and Alzheimer’s disease: results from the Framingham Heart Study 

      Driver, Jane A; Beiser, Alexa; Au, Rhoda; Kreger, Bernard E; Splansky, Greta Lee; Kurth, Tobias; Kiel, Douglas P; Lu, Kun Ping; Seshadri, Sudha; Wolf, Phillip A (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2012)
      Objectives: To relate cancer since entry into the Framingham Heart Study with the risk of incident Alzheimer’s disease and to estimate the risk of incident cancer among participants with and without Alzheimer’s disease. ...

    • Prospective Cohort Study of Type 2 Diabetes and the Risk of Parkinson's Disease 

      Driver, Jane A.; Smith, Ashley; Buring, Julie Elizabeth; Gaziano, John Michael; Kurth, Tobias; Logroscino, Giancarlo (American Diabetes Association, 2008)
      OBJECTIVE—To evaluate the association between type 2 diabetes and newly reported Parkinson's disease. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—Our study included 21,841 participants in the Physicians’ Health Study, a cohort of U.S. ...