Does having Alzheimer’s disease and dementia affect severity of delirium?

Forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, gradually affect your cognitive function by harming your memory and your ability to think and make decisions. By 2050, experts project that 13.8 million older adults in the United States will develop Alzheimer’s disease and related Dementias (ADRD). Although Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, other…

Lifetime discrimination and greater risk of high blood pressure in African Americans

Experiences of discrimination over a lifetime is associated with high blood pressure in African American adults, according to findings published this month in the journal Hypertension from researchers at the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health. High blood pressure is linked with many life-threatening conditions, including stroke, heart disease and…

Marasco examining real-time COVID-19 detection via analysis of sweat metabolite biometrics

Emanuela Marasco, Assistant Professor, Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS), is working to determine whether COVID-19 could be diagnosed via sweat metabolites. If so, this method could enable diagnosis of the virus via non-invasive real-time means. The concentrations of the biochemical content in human sweat have been measured using reagent kits and instruments, such as…