... or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2024 Blood pressure Elderly...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2024 Physiological capacity Exercise Elderly Test-retest Strength...

... of organ dysfunction scores of both acute conditions (e.g., sequential organ failure assessment [SOFA] score) and chronic health issues (e.g., clinical frailty scale [CFS]). Recent work suggests that increased CFS is associated with a worse outcome in elderly major trauma patients. We aimed to test whether...

...Dana Yahav-Shafir; Dina Orkin; Guy Zahavi; Inna Epstein; Moshe Nadler; Haim Berkenstadt Introduction: Although sedation is critical in minimizing discomforts in patients, conflicting data regarding the safety of sedation among the elderly population exist. This prospective study aimed to compare...

.... 2023 Vaccines Elderly Long-term care residents Health care professionals According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 80% of all deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic occurred in persons aged over 60 years [ 1 ]. More specifically, 50% of those deaths occurred in long...

... COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infection Cross-infection Hospital mortality Elderly Aged The COVID-19 pandemic has encompassed over 520 million reported COVID-19 infections and well over 6.2 million deaths worldwide as of May 15, 2022 [ 1 ]. The pandemic has posed...

... was performed in one of the parabiotic pairs in the IP group (Y-IPuuo and O-IPuuo) and in the elderly mice in the HP group (O-HPuuo). In order to study the role of SCF/c-kit on renal interstitial fibrosis, UUO surgery was performed in wildtype (WT) and Wps/Wps mice. Results: Fourteen days after UUO surgery...

...Mengmeng Zhang; Hong Lv; Hong Yang; Huimin Zhang; Xiaoyin Bai; Jiaming Qian Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to compare therapeutic responses and prognosis between elderly and nonelderly ulcerative colitis (UC) patients with moderate-to-severe activity. Methods: 148 UC patients...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Aging Elderly Frailty Prevention Suicide Multiple tools have been developed to measure frailty, such as the Frailty Phenotype by Fried, the Frailty Index...

... dementia. rachelgingoldbelfer@gmail.com Data were analyzed with SPSS software, version 25.0. (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). The significance level was set at 0.05. 28 03 2021 26 01 2022 22 3 2022 Anemia Dementia Cognitive decline Elderly Anemia has long been...

... after a low-energy HF. The secondary objective was to assess the prevalence of situations in which ZA must be used with caution. Methods: Our retrospective descriptive monocentric study was performed in an OG unit on a cohort of elderly patients hospitalized for HF from August 2015 to August 2017...

...Frédéric Muhla; Karine Duclos; Fabien Clanché; Philippe Meyer; Séverine Maïaux; Sophie Colnat-Coulbois; Gérome C. Gauchard Background/Aims: Falling among the elderly is a major public health issue, especially with the advancing age of the baby boomers. The fall risk assessment tests for many lack...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2021 Disability Elderly Gait Walking speed Community Some measures of physical performance may aid in identifying older adults with a preclinical stage of disability, who may benefit from interventions for preventing...

... of ICU readmission of elderly patients (≥65 years) have not been studied. Methods: This retrospective single-center cohort study was conducted in a total of 122-bed ICU of a tertiary care hospital in Seoul, Korea. A total of 85,413 patients were enrolled in this hospital between January 1, 2007...

...Qin-Yi Wang; Na Ding; Yi-He Dong; Zhang-Xin Wen; Rong Chen; Shu-Ying Liu; Hong Liu; Zhi-Feng Sheng; Yang-Na Ou Background: The evidence supporting the use of antiresorptive and anabolic agents for fracture prevention in elderly patients is still inconclusive. Whether it is too late to alter...

...Ben Varon; Leonid Kandel; Gurion Rivkin; David Leibowitz Introduction: Total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are common surgeries performed in elderly patients with osteoarthritis. Limited data address the clinical significance of perioperative atrial fibrillation (AF...

... in the elderly. The objective of the study was to evaluate and compare the efficacy of 2 protocols with inspiratory muscle training (IMT), low loads and high loads, to improve respiratory strength, functional capacity and dyspnea in institutionalized elderly women, over 65 years. Methods: The study...

... coronavirus disease (COVID-19). However, no data are available on its role in elderly patients. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic role of LUS in elderly patients hospitalized for severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pneumonia. Methods...

... Caballero; Kalet Leon; Tania Crombet; Carlos Jorge Hidalgo Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a recent outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In Cuba, the first case of COVID-19 was reported on March 11, 2020. Elderly individuals with multiple...

...Anna Cornelia Maria Bauer; Gerda Andringa The number of elderly is growing rapidly, including those that struggle with cognitive decline and, consequently, activities of daily living. Developing interventions that slow down cognitive decline would greatly benefit the autonomy of these elderly...