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Does delirium cause long-term cognitive decline?

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Does delirium cause long-term cognitive decline? MedPage Today Delirium was linked to long-term cognitive decline in both surgical and nonsurgical patients, a meta-analysis showed. Patients who experienced an episode of delirium were more than twice as likely to show long-term cognitive decline than patients without delirium, reported Terry Goldberg, Ph.D., of Columbia University in New York City, and co-authors. Delirium was associated with long-term cognitive decline with a Hedges g effect size of 0.45 in a meta-analysis of 23 observational studies (after one outlier study with an exceptionally high OR was excluded), they wrote in JAMA Neurology. Effect sizes were similar between surgical and nonsurgical groups. READ MORE

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