To determine the effect of vitamin D supplementation and maintaining sufficient serum vitamin D on depressive symptoms in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and vitamin D deficiency.
With advancing age, the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and musculoskeletal pain increases. However, published data on the effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation in reducing chronic pain are inconclusive. The purpose of this study was to test...
MEMBERS ONLY CONTENT Login or Join Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) isn’t a new concept. It’s actually been around for hundreds of years, says T.S. Dharmarajan, MD, CMD. However, PEGs are used excessively in the elderly at the terminal...
Drug safety, polypharmacy, and deprescribing are important issues in post-acute and long-term care medicine and therefore also of great interest to JAMDA's editors and readers. This issue of JAMDA features a number of articles that advance the...
We thank the authors for their comments regarding our recent study on antihypertensive regimen intensity and incident dementia in an older Swedish population.1
In the article “Antihypertensive Medication Regimen Intensity and Incident Dementia in an Older Population” by Tan et al, the authors reported that in a prospective observational population-based cohort of 1208 older persons (mean age: 84.1 ± 5.6),...