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Examine Male Patients For Cognitive Impairment

You may want to look at your male patients a little more critically when filling out OASIS items related to cognitive impairment. A new National Institutes of Health study finds such impairment is more common in older men than older women. Scientists from the Mayo Clinic evaluated the cognitive health of 1,969 dementia-free older people and found 16 percent showed signs of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the NIH National Institute on Aging says in a release. "Prevalence was greater among the older participants, and it was consistently higher in men than women across all age ranges." The study appears in the Sept. 7 issue of Neurology. The abstract is at www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/75/10/889.
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