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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground The international scale and spread of evidence-based perioperative medicine for older people undergoing surgery (POPS) services has not yet been fully realised.
Margot E Lodge +9 more
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Instrumenting gait with an accelerometer: A system and algorithm examination [PDF]
, 2015 Gait is an important clinical assessment tool since changes in gait may reflect changes in general health. Measurement of gait is a complex process which has been restricted to the laboratory until relatively recently.
Barry, Gillian +4 more
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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li +6 more
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Post‐GWAS Polygenic Risk Score: Utility and Challenges
JBMR Plus, 2020 Over the past decade, through genome‐wide association studies, more than 300 genetic variants have been identified to be associated with either BMD or fracture risk.
Tuan V Nguyen, John A Eisman
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Role of sarcopenia in the frailty transitions in older adults: a population‐based cohort study
Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2022 Background Frailty and sarcopenia are age‐associated syndromes that have been associated with the risk of several adverse events, mainly functional decline and death, that usually coexist.
Alejandro Álvarez‐Bustos +6 more
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Protein for Life: Towards a focussed dietary framework for healthy ageing [PDF]
, 2018 ‘Ageing well’ has been highlighted as an important research area by the World Health Organization. In the UK, healthy ageing has been identified as a priority research area by multiple Research Councils and is a key NHS priority. Sarcopaenia, the decline
Bauer +19 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed +5 more
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Ultraviolet B Treatment of the Forearm Alters Supraspinal Nociceptive Processing
Pain Research and ManagementExposing the skin to high levels of ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation induces an inflammatory response that upregulates local nociceptive processing; this, in turn, facilitates protective responses to limit further injury.
Peter D. Drummond +2 more
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People with mild cognitive impairment are at increased risk of serious injury
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018 Introduction Data-linkage studies using administrative hospital data have shown that people with dementia have double the rate of injury-related hospitalisations and poorer health outcomes than those without.
Lara Harvey +7 more
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Physical capability and subsequent positive mental wellbeing in older people: findings from five HALCyon cohorts [PDF]
, 2013 Objective measures of physical capability are being used in a growing number of studies as biomarkers of healthy ageing. However, very little research has been done to assess the impact of physical capability on subsequent positive mental wellbeing, the ...
Avan Aihie Sayer +13 more
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