Objectives To evaluate the effects of postoperative rehabilitation on the outcomes of older
adults with dementia who experienced hip fracture. Design Retrospective cohort study …

Background Metformin is commonly prescribed to treat type 2 diabetes. Recent evidence
suggests that it may possess antitumoral properties. The aim of this study was to test the …

Objective: To assess the use of epilepsy surgery in patients with medically intractable
epilepsy in a publicly funded universal health care system. Methods: We performed a …

Our purpose was to evaluate the association of new benzodiazepine use relative to non-use
with adverse clinical respiratory outcomes among older adults with chronic obstructive …

Background: Postoperative delirium after elective surgery is frequent and potentially serious.
We sought to determine whether the use of statin medications was associated with a higher …

BACKGROUND: The array of outcomes according to longitudinal furosemide doses in heart
failure (HF) have not been evaluated. We examined the relationship of dynamic furosemide …

Background: Three warnings of serious adverse events associated with the use of atypical
antipsychotic drugs among elderly patients with dementia were sent to health care …

Objective: Orlistat and sibutramine are widely prescribed antiobesity agents that are
approved for 2 years of continuous use. Previous 1–4-year randomized, placebo-controlled …

BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence linking breast cancer and diabetes; however,
few studies have explored the association between cancer treatments and risk of diabetes …

Background Statins possess immunomodulatory properties and have been proposed for
reducing morbidity during an influenza pandemic. We sought to evaluate the effect of statins …