25-hydroxy-vitamin D, diet and sunlight exposure in patients admitted to a geriatric unit.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myostatin has been proposed as a candidate biomarker for frailty and sarcopenia. However, the relationship of myostatin with these conditions remains inconclusive. OBJECTIVE:To determine the association of serum myostatin concentration with body composition, physical fitness, physical activity level, and fr...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Arrieta H,Hervás G,Rezola-Pardo C,Ruiz-Litago F,Iturburu M,Yanguas JJ,Gil SM,Rodriguez-Larrad A,Irazusta J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of factors associated with vascular injury on the production of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells. ET-1 mRNA expression and peptide production in endothelial cells were increased by thrombin, transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1), interleukin-1 (IL-1) and ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Maemura K,Kurihara H,Morita T,Oh-hashi Y,Yazaki Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectrum of aldimine cross-link bonds of skin collagen is dependent on the localization of the examined material. In correlation to this, there is no synchronous behaviour of cross-linkage in the aging process. The age-dependent decrease of HLNL and the increase of DHLNL in the collagen of tail tendon is only unsu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ruiz-Torres A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:C-reactive protein (CRP), a nonspecific marker of the inflammatory status, is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors and may be an important feature of the metabolic syndrome (MSX) in middle-aged subjects. OBJECTIVES:We assessed the relationship of CRP levels to specific components of MSX and o...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Dupuy AM,Jaussent I,Lacroux A,Durant R,Cristol JP,Delcourt C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phagocytically stimulated canine leukocyte suspensions obtained from 12 young adult and 43 aged individuals were examined for several physiological manifestations of the phagocytically induced respiratory burst. There was considerable variation in levels of oxygen consumption, glucose oxidation via the hexose monophos...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Johnson DD,Renshaw HW,Warner DH,Browder EJ,Williams JD

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a new method for accurately predicting creatinine clearance (Ccr) in the debilitated elderly without urine collections, the total muscle volume of both thighs (MV thigh), as a new predictive parameter, was calculated using computed tomography in 68 debilitated patients aged 61-92 years. A regression line be...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Sanaka M,Takano K,Shimakura K,Koike Y,Mineshita S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is usually assumed that Lamarckian inheritance does not and cannot occur, molecular mechanisms by which non-mutational changes acquired in one generation can be transmitted to the next are now known. These mechanisms involve changes in chromatin structure, rather than changes in DNA base sequence. It is ar...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Jablonka E,Lamb MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caloric restriction (CR), has been shown to extend average and maximum lifespan in rodents and other animals as well as to delay a wide variety of manifestations of aging. The purpose of this study was to further elucidate the relationship between lipofuscin (LF) accumulation and the aging process by examining the eff...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Moore WA,Davey VA,Weindruch R,Walford R,Ivy GO

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of post-operative morbidity in 258 elderly general surgical patients is reported. In 35% of patients no post-operative complications developed. Respiratory, wound and cardiac complications were the leading types of post-operative morbidity encountered, occurring in 39.5, 16.3, and 12.4% of patients...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Seymour DG,Pringle R

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Old age has traditionally been considered to begin at age 65. The improving health and functional status observed among older people may necessitate reevaluation of this cut-off point. OBJECTIVE:To present the changing prevalence of common geriatric syndromes, functional parameters, common disease status an...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Jacobs JM,Maaravi Y,Cohen A,Bursztyn M,Ein-Mor E,Stessman J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine (TAU) is thought to be a neuromodulator or an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. In the periphery, TAU is involved in a wide spectrum of physiological functions. One of the most important putative physiological function of TAU is the modulation of cardiovascular activity including blood pressu...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Wallace DR,Dawson R Jr

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Many falls in older adults occur during walking and result in lateral falls. The ability to perform a recovery step after balance perturbation determines whether a fall will occur. AIM:To investigate age-related changes in first recovery step kinematics and kinematic adaptations over a wide range of later...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nachmani H,Shani G,Shapiro A,Melzer I

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental healthcare of elderly people is a common problem in advanced countries. Recently, high technology has developed robots for use not only in factories but also for our living environment. In particular, human-interactive robots for psychological enrichment, which provide services by interacting with humans while ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Shibata T,Wada K

更新日期：2011-01-01 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

abstract：:The effects of long-term cigarette smoking on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were studied in 67 normal male volunteers. All subjects were healthy volunteers without any past history of cerebral and pulmonary disease. rCBF decreased significantly with advancing age. Although there was no significant difference in ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Yamashita K,Kobayashi S,Yamaguchi S,Kitani M,Tsunematsu T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of long-stay patients (defined as those staying more than 6 months) have been studied in a prospective series of 2,405 admissions. 5.6% become long-stay patients and they were more likely to be women, to be readmissions, to have been admitted from an old people's home, to have been non-emergency ad...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hodkinson I,Hodkinson HM

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) orders, to define factors associated with CPR/DNAR orders and to explore how physicians make and document these decisions. METHODS:We prospectively reviewed CPR/DNAR forms of 1,446 patients admitted to ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Becerra M,Hurst SA,Junod Perron N,Cochet S,Elger BS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A quantitative study of dermal and arterial elastic fibers as a function of age was carried out by computerized image analysis. OBJECTIVE:We investigated whether any parallelism can be established between the morphometric parameters of elastic fibers from the skin and the temporal artery in elderly subjects...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Gogly B,Godeau G,Septier D,Hornebeck W,Pellat B,Jeandel C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, an increasing proportion of all forms of reactivation tuberculosis occurs in patients over the age of 60 years. Atypical presentations and presence of chronic illness obscure the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the elderly. Prompt diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion and aggressive procedure...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Nagami P,Yoshikawa TT

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although common among the hospitalized frail elderly, malnutrition is often unrecognized by clinicians, and its identification is fought with difficulty due to inadequate nutritional assessment methods and standards. This study compared the use of percent ideal body weight (%IBW) and anthropometry in the assessment of...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Lansey S,Waslien C,Mulvihill M,Fillit H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Empirical evidence for the conjecture that brain weight of mammals is a better predictor of life span than is body weight, is reexamined and evaluated in this paper. The original evidence was that for 63 mammalian species, log brain weight explained 79% of the log life span variance, whereas log body weight explained ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Economos AC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of age and smoking on pharmacokinetics of pindolol and propranolol was investigated. Although there was a statistically significant difference in certain pharmacokinetic parameters (maximum plasma concentration, area under the curve, elimination constant and elimination half-life) between elderly patient...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Hitzenberger G,Fitscha P,Beveridge T,Nüesch E,Pacha W

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:In Germany, there is an ongoing concern about the high prevalence of underweight on admission to health-care institutions. In order to assess possible sex-specific differences, the aim of this study is to provide valid figures about the prevalence and risk factors of underweight of men and women in German nur...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Strube-Lahmann S,Müller-Werdan U,Norman K,Skarabis H,Lahmann NA

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between carotid blood flow measured by Doppler spectrum analysis and brain atrophy on computed tomography (CT) was studied in 22 subjects with multiple lacunar cerebral infarctions. The subjects were divided into two groups, 7 patients with multi-infarct dementia (MID) (mean age 73 years) and 15 nondement...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Yamashita K,Kobayashi S,Yamaguchi S,Kitani M,Okada K,Fujihara S,Shimode K,Tsunematsu T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demented elderly patients unable to eat independently and often refusing food are threatened by malnutrition. Therefore, we determined in 6 female patients aged 74-100 with senile dementia the average daily food consumption within a 3-week period by the exact weighing methods on six occasions. The average daily energy...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Stähelin HB,Hofer HO,Vogel M,Held C,Seiler WO

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Future time perspective has been associated with subjective well-being, though depending on the line of research considered either an open-ended future time perspective or a limited future time perspective has been associated with high well-being. Most of this research however has conceptualized future time ...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Kozik P,Hoppmann CA,Gerstorf D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ovine corticotropin releasing factor (o-CRF) on the secretions of ACTH, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) were studied in the healthy young and elderly male individuals. o-CRF caused significant elevations of plasma ACTH, cortisol and DHEA concentrations...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ohashi M,Fujio N,Kato K,Nawata H,Ibayashi H

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:The Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by a triad of oculocutaneous albinism, accumulation of auto-fluorescent ceroid-like pigments within macrophages, and bleeding tendency due to a storage pool disease of the platelets. We report an autopsy case (39y, male), who died of p...

journal_title：Gerontology

authors： Ohbayashi C,Kanomata N,Imai Y,Ito H,Shimasaki H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00