Patients with chronic postoperative pain exhibited a higher risk for dementia compared with those without chronic postoperative pain.

Health system- and community-based dementia interventions showed no difference in their effects on patient outcomes and caregiver strain.

But a specific class of antidepressant medications -- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors -- actually might speed up brain decline among some dementia patients, a new Swedish study suggests.

The authors add, "The results of our large-scale prospective study on patients with early-onset Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) identify a combination of high age, female sex, atrial fibrillation (above ...