Healio (9/8, Oldt) reports, “Cognitive impairment was common among individuals who responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center,” researchers found after evaluating “818 responders who reported for annual monitoring visits.” The findings, which were published earlier this year in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, suggest an association between post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive impairment.

Related Links:

— “Analysis of World Trade Center responders shows link between trauma, cognitive impairment,” Healio, September 8, 2016.

HealthDay (9/7, Preidt) reports, “The more ads for a brand of alcohol that underage drinkers see, the more likely they are to consume that product,” researchers found after asking some 1,000 13- to 20-year-old participants “who said they’d had alcohol in the past month” a number of questions on drinking and television viewing habits. The findings were published online Sept. 7 in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Related Links:

— “TV Booze Ads a Lubricant for Teen Drinking: Study,” Robert Preidt, HealthDay, September 7, 2016.

In a greater than 1,400-word article, The Atlantic (9/7, Todd) reports that “crisis living rooms,” which offer “talk therapy” and trained case managers’ help to mental health patients in crisis may help keep such patients out of emergency departments.

Related Links:

— “A New Place to Calm Mental Distress,” LEAH TODD, The Atlantic, September 7, 2016.

HealthDay (9/7, Preidt) reports, “Stroke survivors face an increased risk of developing depression,” researchers found after analyzing “national databases in Denmark to compare depression risk among stroke survivors and people with no history of stroke.” Investigators found that “in the first three months after having a stroke, survivors’ risk of depression was eight times higher than among people with no history of stroke.”

According to Healio (9/7, Oldt), the findings were published online Sept. 7 in JAMA Psychiatry. An accompanying editorial observed the “study indicates the need for a reappraisal of the importance of the stroke lesion in triggering depression in the context of background predisposing factors.”

Related Links:

— “Stroke Survivors Often Struggle With Depression,” Robert Preidt, HealthDay, September 7, 2016.

The Wall Street Journal (9/7, Radnofsky, Subscription Publication) reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health Interview Survey found that the number of uninsured people in the US remained historically low in early 2016, with only 8.6% of respondents living without healthcare coverage.

The AP (9/7, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports the uninsured rate “has been cut by nearly half under Obama’s law.” The survey “estimated that 27.3 million people remained uninsured in the first three months of this year, about 21 million fewer than in 2010, when Obama signed the Affordable Care Act.”

Related Links:

— “Percentage of Uninsured Historically Low,” LOUISE RADNOFSKY, Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2016. [SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED]