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Do elderly want to work? Modeling elderly's decision to fight aging Thailand [PDF]
, 2022 Thailand has entered into an aging society since the year 2000. Using the 2017 Survey of the Older Persons in Thailand collected by Thailand National Statistical Office, this study uses cross tabulation, random forest with variable importance measure and lasso logistic regression to examine factors that have effects on the elderly's decision to remain ...
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What is important to the GP in recognizing acute appendicitis in children: a delphi study
BMC Primary Care, 2023 Background For diagnostic research on appendicitis in registration data, insight is needed in the way GPs generate medical records. We aimed to reach a consensus on the features that GPs consider important in the consultation and medical records when ...
Guus C.G.H. Blok +3 more
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2002 The elderly, often defined as those 65 years or older, are the most rapidly growing segment of the population, and onset of epilepsy is higher in this age group than in any other. This paper reviews recent developments, including a new proposed definition of epilepsy, a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease that exhibits complex partial ...
Angela K. Birnbaum, Ilo E. Leppik
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Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2020 Background The functional autonomy assessment is essential to manage patients with a neurodegenerative disease, but its evaluation is not always possible during a consultation.
Virginie Dauphinot +5 more
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Cardiomyopathies in the elderly [PDF]
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1987 Cardiomyopathies in the elderly have certain characteristic features. The dilated form appears to be less common than in younger patients. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is more often associated with severe and concentric hypertrophy. The prognosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy seems to be better in the elderly, because they appear to have a lower ...
Walter H. Abelmann +2 more
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Phase angle as a predictor of mortality in elderly patients with multimorbidity: a matched case-control study [PDF]
PeerJBackground We aimed to investigate the value of phase angle (PhA) as a prognostic marker for mortality in elderly patients with multimorbidity using a matched case-control study.
Yao Wang +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Introduction Children with chronic gastrointestinal symptoms are frequently seen in primary care, yet general practitioners (GPs) often experience challenges distinguishing functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) from organic disorders.
Patrick Ferry van Rheenen +6 more
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Pneumonia in the elderly [PDF]
Drugs of Today, 2000 Pneumonia is a frequent cause of mortality and morbidity in the elderly. This article discusses pneumonia in the elderly based on causative organisms and sites where the pneumonia was acquired. Community-acquired pneumonia, nursing home-acquired pneumonia and nosocomial pneumonia in the elderly are reviewed from a diagnostic and therapeutic perspective.
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Dose-Response, 2020 Last few years, struggles have been reported to develop the nanovesicles for drug delivery via the brain–blood barrier (BBB). Novel drugs, for instance, iAβ 5 , are efficient to inhibit the aggregates connected to the treatment of Alzheimer disease and ...
Guichen Li +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2019 Background Burden is well documented among carers of stroke survivors, yet current evidence is insufficient to determine if any strategies reduce this negative outcome.
Jessica F. Hall +3 more
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