Risk factors for early emergency hospital readmission in elderly medical patients.

abstract：:Age-related changes of muscle fiber and collagen content of the diaphragm (DIA) and rectus abdominis (RA) muscles were examined in rats aged 1, 4, 8 and 18 months. The cross-sectional areas of all muscle fiber types (I, IIa, IIb) and the amount of collagen in both DIA and RA increased up to the age of 8 months after w...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Rodrigues CJ,Rodrigues Júnior AJ,Bohm GM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have shown links between cognitive impairment and hypertension as well as mortality. However, combined effects of these two conditions on mortality have not been fully explored. OBJECTIVE:To assess the combined effect of cognitive impairment and hypertension on all-cause mortality among the...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Gombojav B,Yi SW,Sull JW,Nam CM,Ohrr H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aging changes in different body system are well described, but few studies have considered the relationship between them. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was, therefore, to investigate the interrelationships between markers of aging in different parts of the body. METHODS:A cross-sectional study design...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Aihie Sayer A,Osmond C,Briggs R,Cooper C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the requirement for provocative cystometry in urodynamic investigation in the elderly with urinary incontinence, 100 consecutive patients, who were referred on the basis of defined clinical criteria, were first studied by supine cystometry followed by provocative tests where necessary. The most satisfactor...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Eastwood HD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ageing on the threshold firing rate of motor units from the first dorsal interosseous muscle was investigated. Two groups of 9 healthy male subjects between the ages of 20-29 and 60-69 years took part in the study. The threshold firing rate of motor units in young subjects showed close agreement with pre...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Newton JP,Yemm R,McDonagh MJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a multifactorial memory training program designed for normal older adults. The multifactorial program involved the training of three components that are critical to memory functioning: recoding operations, attentional functions and relaxation. Two controls groups...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Stigsdotter A,Bäckman L

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The oral cavity is a reservoir for colonization and infection of systemic organs by pathogenic bacteria. It is understood that aging, tooth eruption, hormonal changes, active disease, oral hygiene, and other factors have an influence on biofilm formation and bacterial accumulation in the oral cavity. OBJECT...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Senpuku H,Sogame A,Inoshita E,Tsuha Y,Miyazaki H,Hanada N

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model of survivorship kinetics is presented. It takes into account both deterministic and stochastic aspects of survival curves. Earlier reports [Piantanelli: Arch Gerontol Geriatr 1986;5:107-118; Piantanelli: Ann NY Acad Sci 1988; 521:99-109] described a model capable of making distinct predictions on ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Piantanelli L,Rossolini G,Nisbet R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The identification of modifiable health span-promoting factors is a public health priority. OBJECTIVE:To explore the socio-environmental, lifestyle, behavioural, and psychological determinants of a clinical phenotypic measure of biological ageing in the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Study (SLAS) cohort. ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ng TP,Zhong X,Gao Q,Gwee X,Chua DQL,Larbi A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuron density, volume of the area and total neuron number were measured in the medial preoptic area, supraoptic nucleus, paraventricular nucleus, anterior hypothalamic area, ventromedial nucleus, dorsomedial nucleus and arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus in young adult male rats (3.5-5 months old) and in old male ra...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Peng MT,Hsü HK

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined age- and diet-related alterations in RNA poly(A) tail length using high-resolution gel electrophoresis followed by Northern hybridization. The results demonstrate conclusively that there is no age-related decrease in the size of the Poly(A) tail of RNA isolated from the male Fischer 344 rat. In contrast, o...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kristal BS,Conrad CC,Richarson A,Yu BP

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies have demonstrated an inverse relationship between gait performance and cognitive impairment. The main purposes of this study were: (1) to design and validate a complex gait test (CGT) in older people, (2) to analyze the effects of age and sex on CGT, and (3) to analyze the association between CG...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Latorre Román PÁ,Muñoz Jiménez M,Salas Sánchez J,Consuegra González P,Moreno Del Castillo R,Herrador Sánchez JA,López Ivanco MDA,Linares Jiménez C,Navas Morales JF,Párraga Montilla JA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'use it or lose it' hypothesis of cognitive aging predicts that engagement in intellectual, social, and physical activities offers protective benefits from age-related cognitive decline and lowers dementia risk. Although this hypothesis has not yet been supported conclusively, there is some empirical evidence in f...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Bielak AA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia is a symptom of a variety of specific structural brain diseases as well as several system degenerations. Alzheimer's disease presently is the commonest cause in the developed world, causing a cortical-subcortical degeneration of ascending cholinergic neurons and large pyramidal cells in the cerebral cortex. C...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Plum F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Six-metre walking speed (SMWS) is a commonly used test for measuring functional performance in older people. However, apart from lower limb strength, few studies have examined the range of physiological and psychological factors that influence performance in this test. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relative ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Tiedemann A,Sherrington C,Lord SR

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen breath testing (HBT) is frequently used as an alternative to small bowel aspiration in the diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). The role of the glucose HBT was assessed in 30 elderly patients. A positive HBT was recorded in 15 of 20 SIBO cases and 7 of 10 culture negatives (sensitivity 7...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Mac Mahon M,Gibbons N,Mullins E,O'Moore RR,Keane CT,Walsh JB,Coakley D

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Declines in physical fitness can notably affect healthy aging of older adults. Multimodal exercise training regimen such as mind-body interventions (MBIs) has been reported to mitigate these aging-related declines of physical function. This meta-analytical review aimed at pooling the effects of MBIs on phy...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ebner SA,Meikis L,Morat M,Held S,Morat T,Donath L

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometric measurements have been carried out on the human myenteric esophageal neurons at the ages of 20-40 and more than 70 years. The number of neurons decreases after 70 years of age, which is accompanied by an increase in the sizes of the neurons. In percentage terms the decrease in the number of neurons in the...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Meciano Filho J,Carvalho VC,de Souza RR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the presenting features, clinical course and prognosis in relation to age in 121 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) for a mean follow-up of 4.6 years. 35 patients (29%) were over age 65 years at presentation/detection. There was a higher proportion of patients asymptomatic of liver disease in th...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Lehmann AB,Bassendine MF,James OF

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquisition of immunologic self-tolerance by clonal deletion in the thymus is concluded to be a critical process in immune aging and is found to be transiently protected from genetic instability by means of a feedback surveillance which functions at the expense of chronic thymic involution. In the immune control of ma...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hartwig M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of noradrenaline and adrenaline were studied in specimens of the posterior tibial artery obtained from 18 subjects at postmortem examination. The mean noradrenaline concentration was 167 ng/g artery (range 17-449 ng/g) and the mean adrenaline concentration was 5 ng/g (range 0--21 ng/g). There was no...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Neubauer B,Christensen NJ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To explore predictors of functional improvement or decline in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) among community-dwelling older people. METHODS:Of all the residents (>or=65 years, n = 1,673) living in Yoita town, Niigata prefecture, Japan, in 2000, 1,544 subjects who participated in the baseline...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Fujiwara Y,Yoshida H,Amano H,Fukaya T,Liang J,Uchida H,Shinkai S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cognitively stimulating activities contribute to the accumulation of cognitive reserve that is proposed to be instrumental for maintaining cognitive functioning in aging. Adopting a novel, more general conceptual perspective including models of vulnerability, we argue that cognitive reserve may modify the lo...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ihle A,Rimmele U,Oris M,Maurer J,Kliegel M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychological research contributes to a better understanding of cognitive mechanisms involved in making advantageous decisions, which is important for everyday life. Using laboratory gambling tasks, it has been demonstrated that both structural and functional brain changes can result in disadvantageous decision-m...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Brand M,Markowitsch HJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular system of 30 old asymptomatic patients (average age 62.5 years) was studied by reflection plethysmography. The plethysmogram (PTG) was recorded from the forefinger of the left hand at rest, during two postural tests (+45 degrees arm-up and -45 degrees arm-down), after physical work, and during the infusio...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Strozzi C,Cocco G,Destro A,Padovan G,Abbasciano V,Tosatti S

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP-dependent and -independent protein kinase have been isolated from livers of rats at 3, 9, 18 and 30 months of age. A preliminary characterization reported here reveals that in addition to a decrease in their activities due to ageing and a likely shift to cyclic AMP-independent casein kinase activity at 30 m...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kumar R,Chiero L,Rodriguez D

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in French Polynesia, in 2013, and in Brazil, in 2015, was correlated with neurological complications, which comprised, among others, congenital microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), which includes a group of acute autoimmune neuropathies generally reported after respiratory or ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Savino W,Messias CV,Mendes-da-Cruz DA,Passos P,Ferreira AC,Nascimento OJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of a health survey covering 561 inhabitants of Tampere, Finland, aged 85 or over, morning urine specimens were studied. 82% of the participants were women. Significant bacteriuria was recorded in 27% of the subjects, 13% of the men and 30% of the women. Pyuria was recorded in 47% of the total material. R...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Heinämäki P,Haavisto M,Mattila K,Rajala S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into the aetiology of osteoarthritis has for several decades been concentrated on the destruction of the articular cartilage, the initiating events being believed to be changes in the proteoglycans and subsequently in the supporting collagenous framework, whereafter the disease is irreversible. Recent evidenc...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Bailey AJ,Mansell JP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age differences in decision-making are of theoretical interest and have important practical implications, but relevant lines of work are distributed across multiple disciplines and often lack integration. The present review proposes an overarching conceptual framework with the aim of connecting disjointed aspects of t...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Löckenhoff CE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00