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Chronotype and Peripheral Clock Genes: Association With Frailty and Insomnia in Mexican Older Adults

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Chronotype, insomnia, frailty, and peripheral clock gene expression were evaluated in community‐dwelling older adults. Extreme morning chronotype was associated with lower odds of insomnia, whereas women showed higher odds of insomnia. Pre‐frail and frail participants exhibited lower peripheral clock gene expression patterns than robust individuals ...
Citlally E. Ortiz‐Vázquez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Concept of the Foundation of Korean Hospital for the Elderly who have Neuropsychiatric Disorders

open access: yes, 1998
The population of the elderly and neuropsychiatric elderly patients increases radically, but realistic management in the welfare and medical dimensions are not adequate.
오병훈
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Sarcopenia and Sarcopenic Obesity in Postmenopausal Women: Limitations of BMI as a Predictor of Sarcopenic Obesity

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
The prevalence of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity is large among community‐dwelling postmenopausal women, and lower body mass index is a significant predictor of both. The finding that low body mass index predicts both sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity, highlights the limitation of body mass index as a measure of adiposity in the assessment of ...
Remya Rajan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acute kidney injury among nonagenarians in Jordan: a retrospective case–control study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease, 2018
Sameeha A Alshelleh,1 Ashraf O Oweis,2 Karem H Alzoubi3 1Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; 2Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan;
Alshelleh SA, Oweis AO, Alzoubi KH
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Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes in Older Adults With Cognitive Complaints According to the Presence of Peripheral Artery Disease

open access: yesAGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
Among 132 older adults, 13 had peripheral artery disease (PAD), identified using the ankle–brachial index. Over approximately 13 months, PAD was associated with increasing middle cerebral artery mean flow velocity, with a significant difference in left‐sided velocity change between groups.
SangMi Noh, Hae‐Eun Shin, YongSoo Shim
wiley   +1 more source

The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index Predicts Short‐ and Long‐Term Outcomes in the Oldest‐Old With Colorectal Cancer: A Multi‐Institutional Analysis of 225 Nonagenarians

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This multi‐institutional study evaluated the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) in 225 nonagenarians undergoing surgical resection for colorectal cancer. A lower preoperative GNRI was independently associated with a longer hospital stay and poorer overall survival, even after adjustment for confounders using inverse‐probability‐of‐treatment ...
Toshiaki Toshima   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prognostic Significance and Clinical Robustness of the HALP Score in Super‐Elderly Patients Undergoing Curative Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
In this multicenter study of 507 patients aged ≥ 80 years who underwent curative gastrectomy for gastric cancer, a low preoperative HALP score was independently associated with poor overall survival. This association remained consistent across multiple complementary analyses, and low HALP was also associated with both cancer‐specific and other‐cause ...
Hiroyuki Inoue   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What do junior doctors at a busy metropolitan teaching hospital want to learn about geriatric medicine and how during their internship year?

open access: yes, 2015
Aims: To gain an understanding of what interns would have liked to have learned in the field of geriatric medicine, and how they would like to learn during their internship year.
Hohenberg, Mark (R18571)
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