This study suggests that violence is a significant phenomenon and that all health workers, especially nurses, are at risk of suffering aggressive assaults. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: low
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Early increases in plasma NfL may reflect early white matter microstructural changes prior to dementia in DS. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: low
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Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer disease (AD), with nearly all individuals exhibiting AD neuropathology, including amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT), by age 40 years. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 98
Evidence: low
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Subtype and Stage Inference (SuStaIn) is an unsupervised learning algorithm that uniquely enables the identification of subgroups of individuals with distinct pseudo-temporal disease progression patterns from cross-sectional datasets. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: low
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alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100.
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BMJ Open
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2022-08-01
A comprehensive outcome monitoring system to monitor the quality and safety of care and variation for HCP recipients was developed. 1 key finding →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 68
Evidence: low
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Older age was associated with greater odds of abnormal p-Tau217 (odds ratio [OR] 1.08 per year, 95% CI 1.07–1.09), as was APOE ε4 carrier status (OR 3.32, 95% CI 2.65–4.17). 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 2,798
Evidence: moderate
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Female gender, older age, and lower levels of education were associated with poorer overall test scores. 3 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 395
Evidence: low
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alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100.
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NeuroSci
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2025-09-05
Early detection of cognitive decline in older adults is essential for implementing timely interventions. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 90
Evidence: low
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alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100.
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BMC Geriatrics
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2025-08-14
One hundred and fifty rules were found for caregivers with a moderate to severe burden, and these rules can be further summarized into twenty general rules. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 585
Evidence: low
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Having three or more vascular risk factors (odds ratio = 1.23, 95% confidence interval [1.04-1.47]), actively smoking (odds ratio = 1.54, 95% confidence interval [1.29-1.82]), being overweight (odds ratio = 1.46, 95% confidence interval [1.22-1.74]), and having diabetes (odds ratio = 1.29, 95% confidence interval [1.09-1.53]) were associated with higher odds of subjective cognitive decline. 2 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: low
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cBF volume declined at comparable rates in iRBD-to-PD and iRBD-to-DLB converters, but atrophy was more severe at DLB phenoconversion. cBF atrophy correlated with attention, executive, and memory deficits. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: moderate
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Little is known about the dysbiosis of the gut microbiome in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) potentially at risk for the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 14
Evidence: moderate
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< 0.001). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis identified right hippocampal MD and t-tau as optimal classifiers for AD. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: low
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BackgroundOdor identification deficits predict Alzheimer's disease (AD) in epidemiological studies. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 600
Evidence: low
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To the Editor: The standardized management of pain–agitation–delirium (PAD) represents a fundamental component of clinical practice in intensive care units (ICUs).[1] Evidence-based analgesia and sedation strategies not only alleviate patients’ physiological discomfort and psychological distress, but also significantly reduce mechanical ventilation duration, improve long-term prognosis, and optimize healthcare resource allocation.[1,2] Equally crucial is delirium management, as evidenced by studies demonstrating that delirium duration independently predicts mortality risk, hospital stay length, healthcare expenditures, and acquired dementia incidence.[3] Although existing studies have explored PAD management practices, most rely on clinicians’ subjective recall that may distort objective clinical realities and fail to reflect distinctive characteristics.[4] Therefore, this nationwide multicenter cross-sectional study, initiated by the Critical Care Analgesia and Sedation Quality Control Subspecialty Group under the China National Center for Medical Quality Control in Critical Care Medicine, aims to investigate the current status of PAD management in China. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 2,627
Evidence: moderate
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alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100.
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The Gerontologist
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2025-02-04
Fourteen articles met inclusion criteria after critical appraisal. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: high
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Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is characterised by white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and contributes to stroke and dementia. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 60
Evidence: low
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Among 225 patients (mean age 65.4 years, 54.2% male), MCR prevalence was 16.4%. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 225
Evidence: low
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alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100.
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2022-01-07
Additionally, it is unknown whether the benefits of this cap would vary between Medicare patients with type 1 versus type 2 diabetes. 4 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 2,227,229
Evidence: moderate
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Although clinical routine focuses on dichotomous and visual interpretation of amyloid PET, regional image assessment in research settings may yield additional opportunities. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: moderate
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alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100.
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NeuroImage
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2020-12-29
Elevated microglial activation in the right amygdala-entorhinal-hippocampal complex of App NL-G-F mice is associated with better spatial learning. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: low
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MMSE score showed a positive correlation with the Aβ 1-42 concentrations ( r = 0.485; p r = -0.418; p = 0.002). 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: moderate
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Our findings suggest AD-type tau is not higher in LLD compared to non-depressed, cognitively unimpaired older adults and appears unlikely to contribute to lower gray matter volume in LLD, further underscoring the need to distinguish major depressive disorder from depressive symptoms occurring in early AD. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 102
Evidence: low
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IL-6 levels were negatively associated with performance on the MMSE in this multiethnic cohort. 5 key findings →
Design: cross-sectional
Evidence: moderate
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There is a need for early, objective markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related synapse dysfunction in adults with Down syndrome (DS). 1 key finding →
Design: cross-sectional
Participants: 131
Evidence: moderate
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and no journal, publisher or ranking body endorses it. We built it so that a reader who is not a
scientist can tell a landmark trial from a conference abstract without having to already know the
difference. Every point comes from one of 20 components, all of them printed on the study itself,
so you can disagree with our arithmetic rather than having to trust the total.
- Journal tier up to 10 pts
- Journal's citation record up to 4 pts
- Study design up to 12 pts
- Strength of evidence up to 5 pts
- Peer-review validation up to 10 pts
- How recent up to 5 pts
- Sample size up to 4 pts
- Effect reported up to 3 pts
- Studied in people up to 3 pts
- Randomised / blinded up to 2 pts
- Times cited up to 7 pts
- Citations per year up to 5 pts
- Impact for its field and year up to 6 pts
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- Still being cited up to 4 pts
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- Institution's track record up to 3 pts
- Multi-centre collaboration up to 3 pts
- Indexed in PubMed up to 2 pts
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Journals are placed in ordered tiers, never given a numeric impact factor — we
could not verify current impact factors from a source we control, and an invented one would be
worse than none. Tier 1 is the top-tier general journals (NEJM, The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science,
Nature Medicine); tier 2 is the leading specialty journals; tier 3 is every other peer-reviewed
journal. A separate part scores how much the journal's own papers are cited, which tells the
tier-3 journals apart.
Two rules we don't bend. First, we never fill in a
missing value: if a record does not state a sample size or a design, that component scores
zero, and if we simply have no data for a part, such as a citation count, that part is left out and
the study is scored on the parts we could check. The study card says which. Second, anything that is not a peer-reviewed
article is capped at 16/100 and carries a warning chip — so a conference abstract or
a company press release can never outrank a peer-reviewed paper, no matter how good it looks.
We rank a rigorous null result — a good trial showing that something does not
work — above an early positive finding. Someone deciding whether to buy a supplement is served by
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