For The Elderly, Diseases That Overlap by Hannah Fairfield. The New York Times. April 15, 2013.
The coincidence of Alzheimer's, high blood pressure, and heart disease is the subject of a study of 733,000 people in assisted living facilities. Venn diagrams are used to effectively segment the population and point to the difficulties of treating people with differing combinations of these diseases.
A key quote from a professor of geriatrics at Johns Hopkins: "Much of the way we practice medicine is looking at disease by disease." "We aren't doing enough thinking about how to add them together and really integrate care."
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