Apathy and fatigue, but not depression, associated with inflammatory biomarkers in older adults

Fleur Harrison, Moyra E Mortby, Adam J Guastella, Julian N Trollor, Karen A Mather, Perminder S. Sachdev, Henry Brodaty · 2025

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Fleur Harrison and co-authors split three kin woes by their blood fire marks in old age, in a study from 2025. Apathy, a loss of drive, and low mood each lift the odds of dementia and death in the old. Fire in the blood may be the gear, but the three woes are oft lumped as one.

More than a thousand town-dwelling adults aged 70 to 90, none with dementia, gave mood scores and fast blood. Two fire marks were read. Drive loss and worn-out feel each tracked the fire marks; low mood scores did not, once age, sex, and school were weighed. The split counts, the team says: what looks like late-life gloom may be fire-linked drive loss, which asks a unlike care.

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CREATORFleur Harrison, Moyra E Mortby, Adam J Guastella, Julian N Trollor, Karen A Mather, Perminder S. Sachdev, Henry Brodaty
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11710254

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