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Worsening Cognitive Impairment and Neurodegenerative Pathology Progressively Increase Risk for Delirium

BACKGROUND: Delirium is a profound neuropsychiatric disturbance precipitated by acute illness. Although dementia is the major risk factor this has typically been considered a binary quantity (i.e., cognitively impaired versus cognitively normal) with respect to delirium risk. We used humans and mice...

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Autores principales: Davis, Daniel H.J., Skelly, Donal T., Murray, Carol, Hennessy, Edel, Bowen, Jordan, Norton, Samuel, Brayne, Carol, Rahkonen, Terhi, Sulkava, Raimo, Sanderson, David J., Rawlins, J. Nicholas, Bannerman, David M., MacLullich, Alasdair M.J., Cunningham, Colm
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25239680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2014.08.005