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abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of biliary lithiasis (BL) and its major associated factors in the elderly people of a small town in Sicily. All inhabitants over the age of 65 were interviewed and underwent a general physical examination, blood tests and ultrasonography of the gallbladder a...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Montalto G,Soresi M,Carroccio A,Averna MR,Muratore R,Li Castri C,Barbagallo CM,Cavera G,Sapienza M,Notarbartolo A

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The European Stroke Database (ESDB) Project aims to develop a 'common clinical language' for stroke care by agreeing on terminology, definitions and clinical assessments. Each area of stroke assessment has a 'minimum dataset', which can be collected routinely and more detailed information can be added for pa...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Ellul J,Watkins C,Barer D

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:identifying the most at risk older people in Emergency Departments (EDs) may help guide clinical practice, and service improvement in emergency care, but little is known about how to implement such tools in practice. Methods:consensus building was used to determine the desirable characteristics of a risk ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Elliott A,Phelps K,Regen E,Conroy SP

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of cutaneous pain threshold using the Neuromod Selectra Model 7750 Transcutaneous Neuronal Electrical Stimulator is described. Pain threshold, measured in 520 healthy volunteers aged 5-105 years, increased with age. Consistent values were obtained in 22 healthy volunteers on three successive days. Pain...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Tucker MA,Andrew MF,Ogle SJ,Davison JG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The long-term effectiveness of group continence promotion delivered via community organisations on female urinary incontinence, falls and healthy life expectancy remains unknown. METHODS:A pragmatic cluster randomised trial was conducted among 909 women aged 65-98 years with urinary incontinence, recruited ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Tannenbaum C,Fritel X,Halme A,van den Heuvel E,Jutai J,Wagg A

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formal assessment of cognitive decline with cognitive tests can be difficult, requiring either two measurement points or a comparison of 'hold' with 'don't hold' tests. Informant-based assessment provides an alternative approach because informants can adopt a longitudinal perspective and directly rate cognitive change...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Jorm AF,Christensen H,Henderson AS,Jacomb PA,Korten AE,Mackinnon A

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:while it is well established that individual patient preferences regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may change with time, the stability of population preferences, especially during periods of social and economic change, has received little attention. OBJECTIVE:to elicit the resuscitation preferen...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Cotter PE,Simon M,Quinn C,O'Keeffe ST

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:residential aged care facility (RACF) resident numbers are increasing. Residents are frequently frail with substantial co-morbidity, functional and cognitive impairment with high susceptibility to acute illness. Despite living in facilities staffed by health professionals, a considerable proportion of reside...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Dwyer R,Gabbe B,Stoelwinder JU,Lowthian J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japan is a super-ageing society that faces pressures on its aged care system from a growing population of older adults. Naturalistic observations were undertaken at eight aged care facilities in central and northern Japan to explore how aged care is configured. Four aspects of contemporary provision were identified th...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Annear MJ,Otani J,Sun J

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety-nine residents, 10% of the total population of elderly in Part III accommodation in Newcastle upon Tyne, were examined for the presence of psychiatric disorder, tested for cognitive impairment, and rated for the presence of confusion. Those allocated a diagnosis of dementia were most impaired and confused, and ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Vardon VM,Blessed G

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care home medicine has been an under-researched area, but over the last decade there has been a substantial growth in publications. Most of these have focused on the 'geriatric giants' of falls, incontinence and mental health issues (especially dementia, behavioural disturbance and depression) as well as other key top...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Burns E,Nair S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:chronic knee pain is still considered a fairly benign disease by many, an 'unavoidable' consequence of ageing. This passive acceptance may be unnecessarily exposing older people to disability and serious co-morbidity. The aim of this study was to determine the disease burden associated with chronic knee pain...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Fransen M,Su S,Harmer A,Blyth FM,Naganathan V,Sambrook P,Le Couteur D,Cumming RG

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine whether the Short-form 36 Health Status Questionnaire (SF-36) is suitable for use in an elderly population. The SF-36 was administered by interview to a random sample of 827 adults from West Glamorgan. Among the 216 adults aged 65 and over the data were 98.8% complete. Evid...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Lyons RA,Perry HM,Littlepage BN

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma Human Growth Hormone (HGH) was raised in a patient with bronchial carcinoma and hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy before radiotherapy to the tumour. Though the soft-tissue swelling and pain of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy disappeared two to three weeks after radiotherapy to the carcinoma the HGH plasma l...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Mukherjee SK

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:ageing is accompanied by impairments in immune responses due to remodelling of the immune system (immunesenescence). Additionally, a decline in habitual physical activity has been reported in older adults. We have recently published that specific features of immunesenescence, such as thymic involution and ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Bartlett DB,Duggal NA

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the UK, the General Medical Council's new guidance on confidentiality restates the professional duty for doctors to regard personal information revealed to them as confidential. Such information can be shared only with the patient's explicit consent--the exceptions to this are narrowly defined. We believe the guida...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Hughes JC,Louw SJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a tremendous therapeutic advance for patients with severe aortic stenosis and high-surgical risk. Since TAVI-treated patients are elderly with multiple co-existing conditions, limited life expectancy and disproportionate health-care expenditures, the aspect of the heal...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Georgiadou P,Sbarouni E,Karavolias GK,Voudris V

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:the Falls Risk for Older People in the Community assessment (FROP-Com) tool was designed for use in targeted multi-factorial falls prevention programmes. It fills the gap between the short screening tools and the longer assessment tools, e.g. the physiological profile assessment (PPA). The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Russell MA,Hill KD,Blackberry I,Day LM,Dharmage SC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year prospective, controlled study of sports injuries in elderly athletes (over 60 years of age) treated at an outpatient sports clinic was carried out in order to determine the number, profile, and specific features of these injuries compared with those of young athletes (between 21 and 25 years). During the stud...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Kannus P,Niittymäki S,Järvinen M,Lehto M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:age-related differences in the treatment of lung cancer patients have been reported in the past, but most previous studies have not recorded case-mix factors, nor have they studied the impact of such ageism on survival. METHODS:a questionnaire-based study of diagnostic and case-mix factors was carried out a...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Peake MD,Thompson S,Lowe D,Pearson MG,Participating Centres.

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) are not routinely prescribed bone-protecting medication despite the fact that they are known to be at risk of falling. We investigated whether subjects with PD were more at risk of fractures than other patient groups in order to establish whether preventative measures...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Genever RW,Downes TW,Medcalf P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:hip fractures result in a significant burden to the patient, their caregivers and the health care system. Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have a higher incidence of hip fracture compared with other older people without AD, although it is not clear if AD is an independent risk factor for hip fracture. ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Baker NL,Cook MN,Arrighi HM,Bullock R

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:avoidance of over anticoagulation in response to warfarin therapy would reduce risk of associated bleeding. SUBJECTS:two elderly patients with venous thromboembolism exhibited extreme anticoagulant response to warfarin. Both were noted to have variant CYP2C9 alleles, which reduce the metabolic capacity of c...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Khan T,Kamali F,Daly A,King B,Wynne HA

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:faecal incontinence affects quality of life and causes caregiver strain. Patients are often reluctant to seek help because of embarrassment and perceived lack of effective treatment. Persisting faecal soiling may lead to unwanted and premature institutionalization. OBJECTIVE:to ascertain the prevalence of f...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Edwards NI,Jones D

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dementia is a predictor of death and institutionalization. It is less clear if variations in cognition within the normal range predict adverse outcomes. OBJECTIVE:To determine if variation at the high end of cognitive test scores predicts mortality or institutionalization, independent of the effect of poten...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： St John PD,Montgomery PR,Kristjansson B,McDowell I

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional survey of community-dwelling elderly volunteers (104 women, 87 men, mean age 70 years) was carried out in winter to determine whether cardiovascular and other potentially modifiable lifestyle factors were associated with serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D during this period. Mean winter levels of se...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Scragg R,Khaw KT,Murphy S

更新日期：1995-07-01 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