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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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The oldest stars of the bulge: new information on the ancient Galaxy

, 2017
Recently the search for the oldest stars have started to focus on the Bulge region. The Galactic bulge hosts extremely old stars, with ages compatible with the ages of the oldest halo stars.
Cescutti, Gabriele, Chiappini, Cristina, Hirschi, Raphael   +2 more
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Changes in heart rate and heart rate variability as a function of age in Thoroughbred horses. [PDF]

, 2017
We investigated changes in heart rate (HR) and HR variability as a function of age in newborn foals to old Thoroughbred horses. Experiments were performed on a total of 83 healthy and clinically normal Thoroughbred horses.
Jones, James H, Ohmura, Hajime
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Athletic “Oldest-Old”: Alive and Kicking [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2019
P.L. Valenzuela is supported by a predoctoral contract granted by University of Alcalá (FPI2016). J.S. Morales is supported by a predoctoral contract granted by Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (FPU14/03435). Research in aging by A. Lucia is funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III and Fondos FEDER (grant PI15/00558).
Pedro L. Valenzuela, Adrián Castillo García, Javier S. Morales, Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Alejandro Lucia   +4 more
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Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality Rates in Old Age in the World Health Organization Europe Region

, 2013
Socioeconomic adversity is among the foremost fundamental causes of human suffering, and this is no less true in old age. Recent reports on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality rate in old age suggest that a low socioeconomic position continues to ...
Antunes, Avendano, Bassuk, Bopp, Borrell, Borrell, Borrell, Breeze, C. A. Towriss, Capewell, Cesaroni, Chaix, D. J. H. Deeg, Doblhammer, E. Grundy, Fernandez, Grundy, Harper, Hofer, Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Huisman, Huisman, Huisman, Ishigami, Jaffe, Jaffe, Kalediene, Leinsalu, Levin, Lorant, M. Huisman, Mackenbach, Mackenbach, Manor, Manor, Manor, Marinacci, Martelin, Martikainen, Martikainen, Martikainen, Martikainen, Martikainen, Merlo, Michelozzi, Minkler, Noale, O'Reilly, Penninx, Rey, ROSSUM, Rosvall, S. Read, Schiaffino, Strand, Valkonen, Van der Heyden, Vaupel, Walter   +59 more
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Isochrones and Luminosity Functions for Old White Dwarfs [PDF]

, 1999
Using a new grid of models of cooling white dwarfs, we calculate isochrones and luminosity functions in the Johnson-Kron/Cousins and HST filter sets for systems containing old white dwarfs.
Alessandro Chieffi, Brad Hansen, Chabrier G., Gregory G. Fahlman, Harvey B. Richer, Larson R. B., Marco Limongi, Oscar Straniero, Piotto G., Renault C.   +9 more
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Combined associations of hs-CRP and cognitive function with all-cause mortality among oldest-old adults in Chinese longevity areas: a prospective cohort study

Immunity & Ageing, 2019
Background Inflammatory markers, such as high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), and cognitive impairment (CI) are associated with mortality; CRP is related to the deterioration of CI.
Chen Chen, Yingchun Liu, Zhaojin Cao, Zhaoxue Yin, Feng Zhao, Yuebin Lv, Zuyun Liu, Chen Mao, Shixun Song, Ling Liu, Yingli Qu, Saisai Ji, Jun Duan, Jiaonan Wang, Virginia Byers Kraus, Yi Zeng, Xiaoming Shi   +16 more
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Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
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Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
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