Is augmentation index a good measure of vascular stiffness in the elderly?

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to determine the safety and effect of intravenous iron sucrose on functional outcomes, delirium, nosocomial infections and transfusion requirements in older patients with hip fracture. DESIGN:single-centre randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:orthogeriatric ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Bielza R,Llorente J,Thuissard IJ,Andreu-Vázquez C,Blanco D,Sanjurjo J,López N,Herráez MR,Molano C,Morales A,Arias E,Neira M,Lung A,Escalera J,Portillo L,Larrubia Y,García C,Zambrana F,Gómez Cerezo J

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is an exploratory attempt to examine international differences in the proportion of old people living in non-private households. The aim of the study was to provoke further discussion of the role which institutions play in the care of the elderly in various settings and to examine the effect of certain demo...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Grundy E,Arie T

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:pre-discharge occupational therapy (OT) home visits are an integral part of the discharge process for older adults in acute care. There is limited quality research demonstrating that these pre-discharge visits enhance the health and well being of older adults. This paper outlines the perceptions of older adu...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Atwal A,McIntyre A,Craik C,Hunt J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute appendicitis in elderly patients has not been studied extensively in the United Kingdom. Studies were performed prior to the regular use of broad spectrum antibiotics and tended to include younger patients. We studied retrospectively all elderly patients (n = 30, mean age = 72 years) who presented in the years 1...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： McCallion J,Canning GP,Knight PV,McCallion JS

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:essential aspects of independence in community mobility among older people concern the control over where, when and how to participate (perceived autonomy), and actual mobility (life-space mobility; frequency, distance and need of assistance). We studied relationships between frailty and life-space mobility ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Portegijs E,Rantakokko M,Viljanen A,Sipilä S,Rantanen T

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:arterial stiffening is a marker of vascular ageing and an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. A potential mechanism linking cardiovascular disease to chronic kidney disease might be the change in arterial elasticity. We aim to determine the association between renal function and arterial stif...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Sedaghat S,Dawkins Arce FG,Verwoert GC,Hofman A,Ikram MA,Franco OH,Dehghan A,Witteman JC,Mattace-Raso F

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doppler-shifted ultrasound and spectral analysis were used to assess signals from the resting supra-orbital artery and the common carotid artery at the base of the neck of 658 (270 male, 388 female) asymptomatic subjects aged 5 to 90 years. The sonagrams obtained showed two peaks (A and B) during cardiac systole. The ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Baskett JJ,Lewis RR,Beasley MG,Gosling RG

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Screening tool of older people's prescriptions (STOPP) and screening tool to alert to right treatment (START) criteria were first published in 2008. Due to an expanding therapeutics evidence base, updating of the criteria was required. METHODS:We reviewed the 2008 STOPP/START criteria to add new evidence-based...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： O'Mahony D,O'Sullivan D,Byrne S,O'Connor MN,Ryan C,Gallagher P

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of all 2069 in-patients at 14 geriatric centres, 249 patients were found to have received drugs for the treatment of parkinsonism. There was a wide variation in point prevalence which varied from 4.6% to 22.6% between centres. Levodopa, usually in combination with a decarboxylase inhibitor, was the most fr...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： White NJ,Barnes TR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In one experiment, four groups of six-week-old-male PVG rats were, respectively, given tap water ('control group'), 0.00125M, 0.0025M, and 0.005M lathyrogen (aminoacetonitrile hydrochloride: AAN) solutions ad libitum for a period of 20 weeks. In a second experiment, 12-week-old male rats were similarly treated. It was...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Morgan AJ,Bellamy D

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:the data concerning the predictive role of oxidised LDL (ox-LDL) in all-cause mortality are scarce. We investigated whether circulating ox-LDL would stand out as a risk factor of total mortality in the elderly. Study subjects, design and methods: a total of 1,260 elderly inhabitants (533 men, 7...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Linna M,Ahotupa M,Löppönen MK,Irjala K,Vasankari T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:despite an increasing proportion of older people working beyond State Pension Age (SPA), little is known about neither the motivations for this decision nor whether, and to what extent, working beyond SPA affects quality of life (QoL). Methods:QoL was measured using the CASP-19 scale. Respondents in paid wo...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Di Gessa G,Corna L,Price D,Glaser K

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:delirium is a frequent complication of hospital admission for older people and can be reduced by multicomponent interventions, but implementation and delivery of such interventions is challenging. OBJECTIVE:to investigate fidelity to the prevention of delirium system of care within a multicentre, pragmatic,...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Smith J,Green J,Siddiqi N,Inouye SK,Collinson M,Farrin A,Young J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporadic Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder. It is uniformly fatal. Clinical signs include myoclonus, visual disturbances, cerebellar ataxia, akinetic mutism and pyramidal/extrapyramidal signs in addition to a rapidly progressive dementia. Premortem diagnosis is challenging due to the ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Podger H,Ipe A

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Delirium is a common presentation in older inpatients with COVID-19, and a risk factor for cognitive decline at discharge. The glaring gaps in the service provision in delirium care, regardless of aetiology, after a hospital admission pre-existed the pandemic, but the pandemic arguably offers an opportunity now to add...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Rahman S,Byatt K

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Myasthenia gravis is probably commoner than previously suspected, the annual incidence being nearer 9-10/million than earlier figures of 2-4/million. The current study found an annual incidence in Croyden of 9.1 per million (95% confidence limits 5.7-13.8 per million). Of the 22 patients (59%) seen in Croyden with new...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Schon F,Drayson M,Thompson RA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to measure sex differences in the risk of receiving potentially inappropriate prescription drugs and to examine what are the factors that contribute to these differences. DESIGN:a retrospective cohort study. SETTING:community setting of British Columbia, Canada. PARTICIPANTS:residents of British Columbia ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Morgan SG,Weymann D,Pratt B,Smolina K,Gladstone EJ,Raymond C,Mintzes B

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:to explore the relationship between blood lipids/lipoproteins and cognitive function in the Chinese oldest-old. DESIGN:multivariate statistical analysis using cross-sectional data. SETTING:community-based setting in longevity areas in China. SUBJECTS:eight hundred and thirty-six subjects aged 80 and older ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Yin ZX,Shi XM,Kraus VB,Fitzgerald SM,Qian HZ,Xu JW,Zhai Y,Sereny MD,Zeng Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this prospective study was to investigate whether an immunological double faecal occult blood test (Fecatwin-S/FECA-EIA) can be used in screening patients with symptoms suggestive of colonic or rectal origin in primary health care. Altogether 523 patients were referred to the study by general practitioners....

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Kemppainen M,Häkkinen I,Räihä I,Pomoell R,Sourander L

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple random sample of older people composed of 215 men and 272 women aged 62 years and over was examined in Edinburgh in 1968-9. After one year, 86 per cent of the men and 79 per cent of the women were re-examined; 7 per cent of the men and 4 per cent of the women had died and the remainder were not re-examined fo...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Milne JS,Chopin JM

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of two representative population samples of 70-year-olds, one of which was followed up at 75 years of age, digitalis treatment was associated with oestrogen-like metabolic effects, indicated by changes in the composition of the plasma phospholipid fraction. Digitalis treatment, at least at these ages, is re...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Persson G,Landahl S,Svanborg A

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overactive bladder is the commonest underlying bladder disorder causing urinary incontinence in elderly people. Management of the condition relies upon a holistic assessment of the problem, lifestyle adjustment, behavioural management and drug therapy. The majority of currently available drugs rely on their anti-m...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Wagg A,Cohen M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:the organisation of long-term medicine and geriatric medicine has undergone many changes during the last 15 years. The aim of this study is to gain an overall perspective of the present organisation of geriatric medicine in Sweden. DESIGN:questionnaire survey. METHODS:The Swedish Society for Geriatric Medic...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Akner G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outline is given of simple urodynamic investigations applicable to elderly subjects. The type of patient presenting primarily to geriatric departments with urinary incontinence, whose management is aided by such studies, is described under various clinical groupings. The requirement for urodynamic studies and the b...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Eastwood HD

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:to assess motivating factors of healthy elderly people to comply with influenza vaccination. DESIGN:survey of healthy elderly people invited by mail by their general practitioner to come for influenza vaccination. Compliance and the personal characteristics of gender, age and medical insurance were recorded ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： van Essen GA,Kuyvenhoven MM,de Melker RA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertension is a risk factor for both cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, with an increasing incidence with advancing patient age. Exercise interventions have the potential to reduce blood pressure in older adults, however, rates of exercise uptake and adherence are low, with 'lack of time' a common...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Herrod PJJ,Lund JN,Phillips BE

更新日期：2020-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:to test the hypothesis as to whether persons newly discharged into the community following an acute stroke and assigned a stroke case manager would experience, compared to usual post-hospital care, better health-related quality of life (HRQL), fewer emergency room visits and less non-elective hospitalisation...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Mayo NE,Nadeau L,Ahmed S,White C,Grad R,Huang A,Yaffe MJ,Wood-Dauphinee S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-eight elderly hospital patients walked along a 10-m length of carpeted corridor and a 10-m length of vinyl-tiled corridor. Gait speed and step length were significantly greater on the carpeted than on the vinyl surface. ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Willmott M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delirium is a common neuropsychiatric disorder. The natural course is of an acute, fluctuating and often transient condition; however, accumulating evidence suggests that delirium can be associated with incomplete recovery. Despite a growing body of research, a lack of clarity exists regarding definition and...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Adamis D,Devaney A,Shanahan E,McCarthy G,Meagher D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between functional and nutritional changes caused by an acute illness requiring hospitalisation and 6-month mortality. DESIGN:Hospital-based prospective longitudinal cohort study. SETTING:Acute care centre (Hospital General de Vic, Barcelona Province, Spain). Post-acute care cen...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Espaulella J,Arnau A,Cubí D,Amblàs J,Yánez A

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00