{"title":"Psychosocial pathways linking differences in socioeconomic status to symptoms of depression","authors":"Larissa Zwar","doi":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.07.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.07.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34394,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Healthy Longevity","volume":"5 9","pages":"Article 100626"},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666756824001429/pdfft?md5=feca87aea0a11b8f7dc3c5c07e122d86&pid=1-s2.0-S2666756824001429-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142112842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prof Naaheed Mukadam PhD , Robert Anderson MA , Sebastian Walsh MPhil , Raphael Wittenberg MSc , Prof Martin Knapp PhD , Prof Carol Brayne PhD , Prof Gill Livingston MD
{"title":"Benefits of population-level interventions for dementia risk factors: an economic modelling study for England","authors":"Prof Naaheed Mukadam PhD , Robert Anderson MA , Sebastian Walsh MPhil , Raphael Wittenberg MSc , Prof Martin Knapp PhD , Prof Carol Brayne PhD , Prof Gill Livingston MD","doi":"10.1016/S2666-7568(24)00117-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2666-7568(24)00117-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Individual-level interventions for dementia risk factors could reduce costs associated with dementia and some are cost-effective. We aimed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of population-level interventions for tackling dementia risk factors.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>In this economic modelling study, we included recommended population-based interventions from a previously published review article for which there was consistent and robust evidence of effectiveness in tackling a dementia risk factor (tobacco smoking, excess alcohol use, hypertension, obesity, air pollution, and head injury). We only included interventions if they had not been introduced in England or were in place but could be extended. The interventions studied were increases in tobacco pricing, minimum pricing for alcohol, raising alcohol price, salt reduction policies, sugar reduction policies, low emission zones, and compulsory helmet use for cycling by children (aged 5–18 years). We used published intervention effect sizes and relative risks for each risk factor and a Markov model to estimate progression to dementia in populations with and without the intervention, looking at lifetime risk, in the population of England.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>We estimated that reductions in excess alcohol use through minimum unit pricing would lead to cost-savings of £280 million and 4767 quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained over an indefinite succession of age cohorts. Reformulation of food products to reduce salt would lead to cost-savings of £2·4 billion and 39 433 QALYs gained and reformulation to reduce sugar would lead to cost-savings of £1·046 billion and 17 985 QALYs gained. Reducing dementia risk from air pollution by introducing low emission zones in English cities with a population of 100 000 or more (that do not already impose restrictions) would lead to £260 million cost-savings and 5119 QALYs gained. Raising cigarette prices by 10% to reduce dementia risk from smoking would lead to 2277 QALYs gained and cost-savings of £157 million. Making bicycle helmets compulsory for children (aged 5–18 years) to reduce dementia risk from head injury would lead to cost-savings of £91 million and 1554 QALYs gained.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>Population-level interventions could help tackle life course dementia risk and save costs.</p></div><div><h3>Funding</h3><p>UK National Institute for Health and Care Research Three Schools dementia research programme.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34394,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Healthy Longevity","volume":"5 9","pages":"Article 100611"},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266675682400117X/pdfft?md5=11cf8662075dd2811b0c703f0114287f&pid=1-s2.0-S266675682400117X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tim J Knobbe MD , Daan Kremer MD , Dorien M Zelle MD PhD , Gerald Klaassen MSc , Desie Dijkema MSc , Iris M Y van Vliet PhD , Paul B Leurs MD PhD , Prof Frederike J Bemelman , Prof Maarten H L Christiaans , Prof Stefan P Berger MD PhD , Prof Gerjan Navis MD PhD , Prof Stephan J L Bakker MD PhD , Eva Corpeleijn PhD
{"title":"Effect of an exercise intervention or combined exercise and diet intervention on health-related quality of life-physical functioning after kidney transplantation: the Active Care after Transplantation (ACT) multicentre randomised controlled trial","authors":"Tim J Knobbe MD , Daan Kremer MD , Dorien M Zelle MD PhD , Gerald Klaassen MSc , Desie Dijkema MSc , Iris M Y van Vliet PhD , Paul B Leurs MD PhD , Prof Frederike J Bemelman , Prof Maarten H L Christiaans , Prof Stefan P Berger MD PhD , Prof Gerjan Navis MD PhD , Prof Stephan J L Bakker MD PhD , Eva Corpeleijn PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Robust evidence for interventions to improve health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in people who receive a kidney transplant is scarce. We aimed to assess the effects of a lifestyle intervention in this context.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We conducted a multicentre, open-label, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial among people who have received a kidney transplant. Participants from six hospitals across the Netherlands were randomly assigned 1:1:1 by an independent company into: usual care, exercise, and exercise plus diet. The exercise intervention encompassed two phases, a 3-month supervised exercise programme (twice weekly) followed by 12 months of lifestyle coaching, with 15 months of additional dietary counselling (12 sessions) for the exercise plus diet group. The primary outcome was HRQoL-domain physical functioning, assessed using the 36-item Short Form Survey at 15 months.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>From Oct 12, 2010 to Nov 18, 2016, 221 participants who had received a kidney transplant (138 [62%] male and 83 [38%] female, with a mean age of 52·5 [SD 13·5] years, who were a median of 5·5 [IQR 3·6–8·4] months post-transplant) were included and randomly assigned to usual care (n=74), exercise intervention (n=77), and exercise plus diet intervention (n=70). In the intention-to-treat analyses, at 15 months post-baseline, no significant differences in HRQoL-domain physical functioning were found for the exercise group (5·3 arbitrary units, 95% CI –4·2 to 14·9; p=0·27), and the exercise plus diet group (5·9 arbitrary units, –4·1 to 16·0; p=0·25) compared with control. Safety outcomes showed no safety concerns. After 3 months of supervised exercise intervention, HRQoL-domain physical functioning improved in the exercise group (7·3 arbitrary units, 95% CI 1·2 to 13·3; p=0·018) but not in the exercise plus diet group (5·8 arbitrary units, –0·5 to 12·1; p=0·072).</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>A lifestyle intervention is safe and feasible in people who have received kidney transplants, paving the way for lifestyle intervention studies in other multimorbid populations with polypharmacy. However, improving HRQoL for people who have received a kidney transplant is challenging. The lifestyle interventions in the current study did not show significant improvements in HRQoL at the end of the study at the total group level.</p></div><div><h3>Funding</h3><p>Dutch Kidney Foundation, Innovation Fund of the Dutch Medical Insurance Companies, and University Medical Center Groningen.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34394,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Healthy Longevity","volume":"5 9","pages":"Article 100622"},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666756824001387/pdfft?md5=458089fe15d2e09b2eea98693510e45f&pid=1-s2.0-S2666756824001387-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reserve and resilience: the cumulative risk of surgery on cognition and neurodegeneration in older individuals","authors":"Tammy T Hshieh","doi":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34394,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Healthy Longevity","volume":"5 9","pages":"Article 100634"},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666756824001600/pdfft?md5=df4ef66c7ed43cea96a9eb3bdd33238d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666756824001600-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142156177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pasquale Mone , Michele Ciccarelli , Stanislovas S Jankauskas , Germano Guerra , Carmine Vecchione , Valeria Visco , Gaetano Santulli
{"title":"SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists: which is the best anti-frailty drug?","authors":"Pasquale Mone , Michele Ciccarelli , Stanislovas S Jankauskas , Germano Guerra , Carmine Vecchione , Valeria Visco , Gaetano Santulli","doi":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34394,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Healthy Longevity","volume":"5 9","pages":"Article 100632"},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666756824001582/pdfft?md5=a738d8d237a2880177d0a896f7b64a1c&pid=1-s2.0-S2666756824001582-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lindsay C Kobayashi PhD , Rachel L Peterson PhD , Xuexin Yu PhD , Justina Avila-Rieger PhD , Priscilla A Amofa-Ho MS , Clara Vila-Castelar PhD , Erika Meza PhD , C Elizabeth Shaaban PhD , Prof Rachel A Whitmer PhD , Paola Gilsanz PhD , Elizabeth Rose Mayeda
{"title":"Life course financial mobility and later-life memory function and decline by gender, and race and ethnicity: an intersectional analysis of the US KHANDLE and STAR cohort studies","authors":"Lindsay C Kobayashi PhD , Rachel L Peterson PhD , Xuexin Yu PhD , Justina Avila-Rieger PhD , Priscilla A Amofa-Ho MS , Clara Vila-Castelar PhD , Erika Meza PhD , C Elizabeth Shaaban PhD , Prof Rachel A Whitmer PhD , Paola Gilsanz PhD , Elizabeth Rose Mayeda","doi":"10.1016/S2666-7568(24)00129-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2666-7568(24)00129-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Intersectionality has rarely been considered in research studies of cognitive ageing. We investigated whether life-course financial mobility is differentially associated with later-life memory function and decline across intersectional identities defined by gender, and race and ethnicity.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Data were from two harmonised multiethnic cohorts (the Kaiser Healthy Aging and Diverse Life Experiences cohort and the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans cohort) in northern California, USA (n=2340). Life-course financial mobility, measured using a combination of self-reported financial capital measures in childhood (from birth to age 16 years) and later adulthood (at the cohort baseline) was defined as consistently high, upwardly mobile, downwardly mobile, or consistently low. We clustered individuals into 32 strata representing intersectional identities defined by life-course financial mobility combined with gender, and race and ethnicity. Verbal episodic memory was assessed using the Spanish and English Neuropsychological Assessment Scales over four waves from 2017 to 2023. Adjusted mixed-effects linear regression models were estimated with and without fixed effects of gender, race and ethnicity, and financial mobility, to evaluate whether the random effects of the intersectional identity strata contributed variance to memory beyond individual fixed effects.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>Mean age was 73·6 years (SD 8·1). Of 2340 individuals, 1460 (62·4%) were women, 880 (37·6%) were men, 388 (16·6%) were Asian, 1136 (48·5%) were Black, 334 (14·3%) were Latinx, and 482 (20·6%) were White. Consistently low and downwardly mobile financial capital were strongly negatively associated with later-life memory at baseline (–0·162 SD units [95% CI –0·273 to –0·051] for consistently low and –0·171 [–0·250 to –0·092] for downwardly mobile), but not rate of change over time. Intersectional identities contributed 0·2% of memory variance after accounting for the fixed effects of gender, race and ethnicity, and financial mobility.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>Consistently low and downward life-course financial mobility are associated with lower later-life memory function. Intersectional identities defined by financial mobility in addition to gender, and race and ethnicity, contribute negligible additional variance to later-life memory in this study setting.</p></div><div><h3>Funding</h3><p>US National Institute on Aging, US National Institutes of Health.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34394,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Healthy Longevity","volume":"5 9","pages":"Article 100613"},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666756824001296/pdfft?md5=e05617b92e985c04bf8be870390e4a3d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666756824001296-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142120782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Taylor PhD , Kristy P Robledo PhD , Vicente Medel PhD , Prof Gillian Heller PhD , Thomas Payne MD , Jordan Wehrman PhD , Cameron Casey PhD , Phillip F Yang MBBS MS , Bryan M Krause PhD , Richard Lennertz MD PhD , Prof Sharon Naismith DPsych , Prof Armando Teixeira-Pinto PhD , Prof Robert D Sanders MBBS PhD
{"title":"Association between surgical admissions, cognition, and neurodegeneration in older people: a population-based study from the UK Biobank","authors":"Jennifer Taylor PhD , Kristy P Robledo PhD , Vicente Medel PhD , Prof Gillian Heller PhD , Thomas Payne MD , Jordan Wehrman PhD , Cameron Casey PhD , Phillip F Yang MBBS MS , Bryan M Krause PhD , Richard Lennertz MD PhD , Prof Sharon Naismith DPsych , Prof Armando Teixeira-Pinto PhD , Prof Robert D Sanders MBBS PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.07.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lanhl.2024.07.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Previous studies have shown that major surgical and medical hospital admissions are associated with cognitive decline in older people (aged 40–69 years at recruitment), which is concerning for patients and caregivers. We aimed to validate these findings in a large cohort and investigate associations with neurodegeneration using MRI.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>For this population-based study, we analysed data from the UK Biobank collected from March 13, 2006, to July 16, 2023, linked to the National Health Service Hospital Episode Statistics database, excluding participants with dementia diagnoses. We constructed fully adjusted models that included age, time, sex, <em>Lancet</em> Commission dementia risk factors, stroke, and hospital admissions with a participant random effect. Primary outcomes were hippocampal volume and white matter hyperintensities, both of which are established markers of neurodegeneration, and exploratory analyses investigated the cortical thickness of Desikan–Killiany–Tourville atlas regions. The main cognitive outcomes were reaction time, fluid intelligence, and prospective and numeric memory. Surgeries were calculated cumulatively starting from 8 years before the baseline evaluation.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>Of 502 412 participants in the UK Biobank study, 492 802 participants were eligible for inclusion in this study, of whom 46 706 underwent MRI. Small adverse associations with cognition were found per surgery: reaction time increased by 0·273 ms, fluid intelligence score decreased by 0·057 correct responses, prospective memory (scored as correct at first attempt) decreased (odds ratio 0·96 [95% CI 0·95 to 0·97]), and numeric memory maximum correct matches decreased by 0·025 in fully adjusted models. Surgeries were associated with smaller hippocampal volume (β=−5·76 mm³ [−7·89 to −3·64]) and greater white matter hyperintensities volume (β=100·02 mm³ [66·17 to 133·87]) in fully adjusted models. Surgeries were also associated with neurodegeneration of the insula and superior temporal cortex.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>This population-based study corroborates that surgeries are generally safe but cumulatively are associated with cognitive decline and neurodegeneration. Perioperative brain health should be prioritised for older and vulnerable patients, particularly those who have multiple surgical procedures.</p></div><div><h3>Funding</h3><p>The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Foundation and the University of Sydney.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34394,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Healthy Longevity","volume":"5 9","pages":"Article 100623"},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666756824001399/pdfft?md5=bd3cfbe08dfee9f5b21f45c2462307a5&pid=1-s2.0-S2666756824001399-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142156176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}