Age Estimation using Phalangeal Skeletochronology in Northern Crawfish Frogs, Lithobates areolatus circulosus (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae), from Arkansas [PDF]
, 2019 As an obligate crayfish burrow dweller, crawfish frogs have historically occupied a relatively narrow ecological niche throughout their distribution in the tall grass prairies and grasslands of the central and south-central United States.
Thigpen, Christopher S. +1 more
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Globular Cluster and Galaxy Formation: M31, the Milky Way and Implications for Globular Cluster Systems of Spiral Galaxies [PDF]
, 2004 The globular cluster (GC) systems of the Milky Way and of our neighboring spiral galaxy, M31, comprise 2 distinct entities, differing in 3 respects. 1. M31 has young GCs, ages from ~100 Myr to 5 Gyr old, as well as old globular clusters.
Bajaja E. +19 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 +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 +2 more
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Garlic Consumption and All-Cause Mortality among Chinese Oldest-Old Individuals: A Population-Based Cohort Study. [PDF]
, 2019 In vitro and in vivo experimental studies have shown garlic has protective effects on the aging process; however, there is no evidence that garlic consumption is associated with all-cause mortality among oldest-old individuals (≥80 years).
Gao, Xiang +6 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 +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 +2 more
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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 +7 more
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The oldest old and the risk of social exclusion [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines whether people aged eighty-five-and-over, referred to throughout as ‘The Oldest Old’, are more likely to suffer from social exclusion than people aged sixty-five to eighty-four.
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Brain Aging in the Oldest-Old [PDF]
Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, 2010 Nonagenarians and centenarians represent a quickly growing age group worldwide. In parallel, the prevalence of dementia increases substantially, but how to define dementia in this oldest-old age segment remains unclear. Although the idea that the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD) decreases after age 90 has now been questioned, the oldest-old still ...
von Gunten, A. +4 more
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