35 research outputs found
Risk Factors Associated With Severe Hypoglycemia in Older Adults With Type 1 Diabetes
OBJECTIVE Severe hypoglycemia is common in older adults with long-standing type 1 diabetes, but little is known about factors associated with its occurrence
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Improving the ecological validity of executive functioning assessment
Working memory and aging: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis using a self-ordered pointing task
Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with depression in epilepsy
The impact of mood disorders on patients with epilepsy is an important and growing area of research. If clinicians are adept at recognizing which patients with epilepsy are at risk for mood disorders, treatment can be facilitated and morbidity avoided. We completed a case–control study (80 depressed subjects, 141 nondepressed subjects) to determine the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with self-reported depression in people with epilepsy. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 was used to determine clinically significant depression. In multivariate analyses, depressed subjects with epilepsy were significantly less likely than nondepressed subjects to be married or employed and more likely to report comorbid medical problems and active seizures in the past 6months. Adjusted for all other variables, subjects with epilepsy reporting lamotrigine use were significantly less likely to be depressed (OR=0.4, 95% CI: 0.2–0.8) compared with those not reporting lamotrigine use