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Prevenção do defeito cognitivo e demência - Os factores de risco vascular
Revista Portuguesa de Medicina Geral e Familiar, 2010 O declínio cognitivo e a demência aumentam com o envelhecimento. Por outro lado, os factores de risco vascular também são mais frequentes no indivíduo idoso.
Ana Verdelho
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Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2016 Introdução: O Mini-Mental State Examination é o teste de rastreio de défice cognitivo/demência mais difundido. No nosso país têm-se utilizado pontuações de corte definidas por grupos de literacia, mas existem novas propostas sustentadas por estudos mais
Isabel Santana +6 more
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Acta Neurológica Colombiana, 2021 INTRODUCCIÓN: La prevalencia de deterioro cognitivo leve (DCL) y demencia se ha descrito recientemente como alta en Colombia, debido al aumento de la población adulta mayor y a su baja escolaridad.
Luz Adriana Santamaría Ávila +4 more
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Breast cancer surgery in older women: outcomes of the Bridging Age Gap in Breast Cancer study
BJS (British Journal of Surgery), Volume 107, Issue 11, Page 1468-1479, October 2020., 2020 Age, ill health and frailty all influence surgical decision‐making for breast cancer. Breast cancer surgery is safe, with serious adverse events being rare and no mortality. However, surgery has a negative impact on quality of life and independence, which must be considered when counselling patients about choices.
J. L. Morgan +10 more
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Demência resultante de malformação vascular dural.
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2001 A case of dementia can result from encephalopathy caused by venous hypertension, produced by a dural vascular malformation (DVM). The authors describe one tentorial DVM with sinusal venous drainage and retrograde reflux to the cerebral veins (type II ...
Z Magalhães +4 more
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Lack of relationship between hypertension and cognitive performance in community dwelling older adults [PDF]
, 2010 CONTEXTO: Pesquisas documentam que a hipertensão arterial pode estar envolvida no declínio cognitivo em pacientes idosos. Estima-se que até 60% dos idosos apresentem hipertensão arterial, tornando-os mais suscetíveis ao declínio cognitivo.
COIMBRA, Arlete Maria Valente +3 more
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Stages of health behavior change and factors associated with physical activity in patients with intermittent claudication [PDF]
, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To analyze, in people with intermittent claudication, the frequency of individuals who are in each of stages of health behavior change to practice physical activity, and analyze the association of these stages with the walking capacity ...
Barbosa, João Paulo dos Anjos Souza +7 more
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2008 OBJECTIVE: To present socio-demographic characteristics, mean scores of tests and scales applied to patients with dementia and discuss the relationship between test scores, clinical diagnoses and the severity of dementia.
Lyssandra dos Santos Tascone +3 more
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Oral Intake of hospitalized patient with neurogenic oropharyngeal dysphagia [PDF]
, 2010 PURPOSE: to investigate the development in oral intake and the incidence of bronchopneumonia (BCP) in hospitalized patients with neurogenic oropharyngeal dysphagia, after speech and language therapy intervention.
Gonçalves, Maria Inês Rebelo +2 more
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[Anesthesia and Alzheimer disease - Current perceptions] [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: It has been speculated that the use of anesthetic agents may be a risk factor for the development of Alzheimer disease.
Lapa, TA, Marques, AF
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