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Is the association between blood pressure and cognition in the oldest-old modified by physical, vascular or brain pathology markers? The EMIF-AD 90 + Study

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Prior studies suggest a changing association between blood pressure (BP) and cognition with aging, however work in the oldest-old has yielded ambiguous results. Potentially, these mixed results can be explained by modifying factors. The aim of
Nienke Legdeur, Justine E. Moonen, Maryam Badissi, Carole H. Sudre, Wiesje Pelkmans, Mark Forrest Gordon, Frederik Barkhof, Mike Peters, Pieter Jelle Visser, Majon Muller   +9 more
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Total Knee Arthroplasty for the Oldest Old

Geriatrics, 2021
The present study describes and compares the early functional results after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) of the oldest-old population (aged over 84 years) and a randomly matched younger septuagenarian cohort so treated.
Carmen da Casa, Helena Fidalgo, Javier Nieto, Enrique Cano-Lallave, Juan F. Blanco   +4 more
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“Struggling for independence”: The meaning of being an oldest old man in a rural area. Interpretation of oldest old men's narrations

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2014
The amount of older people receiving home nursing care is increasing; in rural areas, they are at additional risk because of the distance between people and health care facilities. No specific studies have been found about oldest old men living alone and
Tove M. Ness, Ove Hellzen, Ingela Enmarker   +2 more
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Pain and recurrent falls in the older and oldest-old non-institutionalized population

BMC Geriatrics, 2020
Background Recurrent falls represent a priority in geriatric research. In this study we evaluated the influence of pain as a risk factor for recurrent falls (two or more in 1 year) in the older (65–79 years) and oldest-old (80 or more years) non ...
César Gálvez-Barrón, Francesc Formiga, Antonio Miñarro, Oscar Macho, Leire Narvaiza, María Dolores Dapena, Ramon Pujol, Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero   +7 more
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Gain in brain immunity in the oldest-old differentiates cognitively normal from demented individuals. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BACKGROUND:Recent findings suggest that Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathological features (neuritic plaques and NFTs) are not strongly associated with dementia in extreme old (over 90 years of age) and compel a search for neurobiological indices of ...
Pavel Katsel, Weilun Tan, Vahram Haroutunian   +2 more
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Liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in oldest old patients

World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2019
Background For hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), liver resection is a classical curative modality, despite its technical complexity. The incidence of HCC in the oldest old people (aged ≥ 85 years) is rising along with the global increase in life expectancy.
Feng-Hsu Wu, Ching-Hui Shen, Shao-Ciao Luo, Jen-I Hwang, Wen-Shan Chao, Hong-Zen Yeh, Yee-Gee Jan, Yun Yen, Shao-Bin Cheng, Cheng-Chung Wu, Yi-Ling Lin, Fang-Ku P’eng   +11 more
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Body mass index and 12-year mortality among older Mexican Americans aged 75 years and older

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background The role of obesity in mortality in the very old and old-oldest Hispanic population has not been studied. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of body mass index (BMI) on 12-year mortality among older Mexican Americans aged 75 
Reshma Jadhav, Kyriakos S. Markides, Soham Al Snih   +2 more
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Associations between lipid profiles and late‐life cognitive impairment among oldest‐old and centenarian adults

MedComm, 2023
Dyslipidemia and cognitive impairment are common among old adults and the occurrence of them rises exponentially with increasing age. Evidences of the relationships between serum lipids and cognitive impairment are inconsistent or equivocal among older ...
Yujian Chen, Kaidi Yang, Ya Huang, Xuejiao Wang, Yali Zhao, Ping Ping, Shasha Guan, Shihui Fu   +7 more
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The Old and the Oldest-old: Do They Have Different Perspectives on Adjustment to Aging?

International Journal of Gerontology, 2015
Background: Older adults experience varying challenges in old age. This study aims to explore the indicators of adjustment to aging (AtA) and to examine the potential explanatory mechanisms of a correlational model for AtA for the old and oldest-old ...
Sofia von Humboldt, Isabel Leal
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Prevalence of Sarcopenia in Very Old Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Hospitalized Patients

Diabetology
Background/Objectives: The prevalence of diabetes in very old people is rising sharply worldwide, due not only to obesity, nutritional and sedentary lifestyles, but also to aging per se.
Sandra De Breucker, Véronique Lachat, Emilia Frangos, Andrea Trombetti, Ulrich Vischer, Aline Mendes, François R. Herrmann, Christophe E. Graf   +7 more
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