Interventions to prevent and reduce excessive alcohol consumption in older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Using Newcastle 85+ Study data, we investigated transitions between frailty states from age 85 to 90 years and whether multi-morbidities and socioeconomic status (SES) modify transitions. METHODS:The Newcastle 85+ Study is a prospective, longitudinal cohort study of all people born in 1921 in Newcastle and ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Mendonça N,Kingston A,Yadegarfar M,Hanson H,Duncan R,Jagger C,Robinson L

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical assessments have to be used in epidemiological studies in the absence of more objective means of establishing diagnosis or recording events in the natural history of disease. This requires the standardization of definition, technique and interpretation as a means of reducing observer variability in clinical e...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Garraway WM,Akhtar AJ,Gore SM,Prescott RJ,Smith RG

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:we investigated the exact relationship between age and gender on augmentation pressure (AG) and augmentation index (AI) measured over the radial (muscular) and carotid (elastic) arteries. DESIGN AND METHODS:AG is the contribution that wave reflection makes to systolic arterial pressure. AI is an indirect me...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Fantin F,Mattocks A,Bulpitt CJ,Banya W,Rajkumar C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample of 761 subjects 70 years and over was drawn from general-practice records of a rural township. Each subject was assessed and followed for 1 year to determine the incidence of and factors related to falls. The fall rate (number of falls per 100 person-years) increased from 47 for those aged 70-74 years to 121 ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Campbell AJ,Borrie MJ,Spears GF,Jackson SL,Brown JS,Fitzgerald JL

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Female life expectancy in developed countries has increased by 30 years in the twentieth century. AIM:To determine if there has been an increase in reproductive longevity. METHODS:We analysed age-specific fertility data from birth statistics for the USA, Canada, Japan, France, Sweden, the UK and Australia....

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Brody JA,Grant MD,Frateschi LJ,Miller SC,Zhang H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Pain and delirium are common in people with dementia admitted to hospitals. These are often under-diagnosed and under-treated. Pain is implicated as a cause of delirium but this association has not been investigated in this setting. Objective:To investigate the relationship between pain and delirium in peop...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Feast AR,White N,Lord K,Kupeli N,Vickerstaff V,Sampson EL

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:in a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial, we investigated whether 6 months of music-based multitask training had beneficial effects on cognitive functioning and mood in older adults. METHODS:134 community-dwellers aged ≥65 years at increased risk for falling were randomly assigned to either ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Hars M,Herrmann FR,Gold G,Rizzoli R,Trombetti A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explicit criteria, such as the STOPP/START criteria, are increasingly used both in clinical practice and in research to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people. In an article on the STOPP/START criteria version 2, O'Mahony et al have pointed out the advantages of developing computerised criteria...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Anrys P,Boland B,Degryse JM,De Lepeleire J,Petrovic M,Marien S,Dalleur O,Strauven G,Foulon V,Spinewine A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS/OBJECTIVES:to study associations between the likelihood of hospital death with patient demographics, cause of death and co-morbidities for people aged ≥85 at death who have been previously admitted (within 12 months of death) to hospital. METHODS:a cross-sectional study, using death registration data and hospital...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Pocock LV,Ives A,Pring A,Verne J,Purdy S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:there is growing consensus around the importance of population level approaches which seek to improve public knowledge and awareness of dementia. Aim:to assess knowledge of the relationship between dementia and ageing, and of the risk and protective factors associated with it, among the general public in Ir...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Glynn RW,Shelley E,Lawlor BA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two cases of acute hepatotoxicity associated with elevated paracetamol (acetaminophen) levels in older patients. Both patients were receiving a standard European dose of oral paracetamol (2 × 500 mg QDS) with no risk factors for slowed metabolism (weight <50 kg, interacting medications, hepatic enzyme induc...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Ging P,Mikulich O,O'Reilly KM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:in the UK the Department of Health recommends influenza vaccination for elderly people resident in institutional care. However, the efficacy of vaccination may be reduced in very frail elderly people with functional impairment, undernutrition and multiple pathologies. Nutritional and functional status is c...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Potter JM,O'Donnel B,Carman WF,Roberts MA,Stott DJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is the most commonly reported zoonosis. Nervous system participation can occur at any stage of the disease either in acute or subacute or chronic form. Isolated nervous system involvement or neurobrucellosis is a relatively rare form of the disease. We describe an unusual case of an older patient with deme...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Spyrou A,Natsis KS,Papamichalis E,Mourtzinos H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:in 2007, the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) published 'Slips trips and falls in hospital' and 'Using bedrails safely and effectively'. OBJECTIVES:this observational study aimed to identify changes in local policies in hospitals in England and Wales following these publications. METHOD:policies in pl...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Healey F,Treml J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:early mobilization after hip fracture (HF) is an important predictor of outcome, but knowledge of the consequences of not achieving the pre-fracture basic mobility status in acute hospital recovery is sparse. OBJECTIVE:we examined whether the regain of pre-fracture basic mobility status evaluated with the c...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Kristensen MT,Öztürk B,Röck ND,Ingeman A,Palm H,Pedersen AB

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to (i) survey the risk factors for NSAID gastropathy in outpatients (elderly patients in the community), compared to those living in old people's homes or nursing homes, (ii) study the prescription of medication prophylaxis during use of NSAIDs conform the current national g...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： van Leen MW,van der Eijk I,Schols JM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reason why elderly human hips tend to break in one of two anatomical regions is uncertain. Nutritional factors may affect the site of fracture. OBJECTIVE:To assess possible nutritional differences in patients with proximal femoral fractures. DESIGN:Prospective observational cohort study. SETTING:Unive...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Maffulli N,Dougall TW,Brown MT,Golden MH

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few certainties in life-death is one of them. Yet death is often thought of today as the 'loss of the battle' against illness, where in traditional societies it was the natural, meaningful, end to life. Medical knowledge and technologies have extended the possibilities of medical care and increased our life ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Gellie A,Mills A,Levinson M,Stephenson G,Flynn E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed 103 episodes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in 88 elderly patients (age 76 +/- 7.7 years) to determine which of a group of 52 clinical and laboratory variables, measured on admission, best predicted continued or rebleeding, and death in these patients. Variables which related directly to the size of th...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Booker JA,Johnston M,Booker CI,Tydd T,Mitchell R

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:the STOPP criteria advise against the use of long-acting benzodiazepines (LBs). OBJECTIVE:to study whether LBs are associated with a higher fall risk than short-acting benzodiazepines (SBs) (elimination half-life ≤ 10 h). METHODS:we used base-line data and prospective fall follow-up from the Longitudinal A...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： de Vries OJ,Peeters G,Elders P,Sonnenberg C,Muller M,Deeg DJ,Lips P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the population study Seventy-year-old People in Göteborg, 449 70-year-old men were examined in 1971/72. Out of these, 331 were re-examined in 1976/77 at age 75, together with a cohort-comparison group of 474 70-year-old men. Cohort differences and a lower smoking prevalence at higher ages were observed. The loss of...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Mellström D,Rundgren A,Jagenburg R,Steen B,Svanborg A

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:the recognition of stroke symptoms by the public and activation of the emergency medical services (EMS) are the most important factors in instigating pre-hospital stroke care. Studies have suggested that poor recognition of the warning signs of stroke is the main cause of delay in accessing the EMS. METHODS...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Jones SP,Jenkinson AJ,Leathley MJ,Watkins CL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From an international comparison of arm anthropometric reference norms for the elderly a new diagnostic criterion for severe wasting malnutrition was derived: corrected arm muscle area at or below 16.0 cm2 for men or 16.9 cm2 for women. Of 201 consecutive hospital admissions aged 65 years and over, 10 subjects were ma...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Friedman PJ,Campbell AJ,Caradoc-Davies TH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:diabetes increases the risk of frailty that is a leading cause of disability and premature mortality in older people. Metabolic syndrome (MS) and insulin resistance (IR) are strong risk factors for diabetes and could, thus, lead to frailty. However, the association between MS or IR and frailty has barely bee...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Pérez-Tasigchana RF,León-Muñoz LM,Lopez-Garcia E,Gutierrez-Fisac JL,Laclaustra M,Rodríguez-Artalejo F,Guallar-Castillón P

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CASE REPORTS:We report three cases of rectus sheath haematoma in elderly women. This condition is commonly misdiagnosed at any age but is an even more elusive diagnosis in elderly patients. CONCLUSION:It is important to consider rectus sheath haematoma in older patients with an abdominal or pelvic mass or spontaneous ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Bene J,Lassman D,Solomon SA

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies of the social behaviour of geriatric patients are reported. In the first, lunchtime observations were made of two comparable wards in a continuing-care hospital and all episodes of social interaction recorded. There were twice as many interactions on one ward as on the other and their type and variety diff...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Davies AD,Snaith PA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:the impact of retirement on physical health is an important focus of ageing research; however, research findings vary greatly. To investigate under what conditions retirement might benefit health, we examined physical functioning 8 years pre- and post-retirement. METHODS:using longitudinal data from the New...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Szabó Á,Allen J,Stephens C,Alpass F

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:Previous work has shown persistent elevations in plasma cortisol concentration following upper femur fracture in elderly people. To investigate this phenomenon further, we measured plasma cortisol and adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) and performed overnight dexamethasone suppression tests in carefully characterized patient...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Roberts NA,Barton RN,Horan MA,White A

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00