abstract：:Neurotoxic effects of habitual alcohol consumption were investigated by correlating the subjects' estimates of abstinence or frequency and amount of alcohol consumed with measurements of gray matter blood flow utilizing the 133Xe inhalation method. Two hundred and twenty-two subjects were studied, including 136 health...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Rogers RL,Meyer JS,Shaw TG,Mortel KF

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality in 159 patients who sustained 163 hip fractures in a single geriatric hospital and residential health facility in a ten-year period was studied. This study confirms the major problem of mortality associated with hip fractures in the very elderly. Factors that seemed associated with mortality were preoperativ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Crane JG,Kernek CB

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients aged 70 years and older who were admitted to a coronary care unit in 1976 with documented acute myocardial infarction were followed to April 30, 1982. At that time, of the 46 patients who had survived initial hospitalization, 28 had died, 16 were still living, and two were lost to follow up. The actuarial sur...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Berman ND

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of histopathologic, morphologic, and pharmacologic criteria are proposed to establish the significance of neurochemical deficits in Alzheimer's disease. The underlying pathogenic biochemistry of a better understood neurotransmitter-deficiency syndrome, Parkinson's disease, validates these criteria. The major ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Greenwald BS,Mohs RC,Davis KL

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia has emerged as a considerable public health hazard. In view of the overwhelming evidence that the elderly are particularly susceptible to this complication of neuroleptic use and the fact that there is no really effective treatment, neuroleptics should be avoided whenever possible in elderly patient...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Jenike MA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) was assayed in the circulating erythrocytes of 38 20-to 30-year-old subjects and 29 80- to 90-year-old subjects. The red blood cell G6PD activity of an aged-unbiased erythrocyte population in the young group was found to be significantly higher than in the older grou...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Rodgers GP,Lichtman HC,Sheff MF

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of 8428 autopsies (1870 for known cancer) showed that 68 patients had had multiple primary malignant tumors (MPMT). Those 68 cases represented 0.8 per cent of all autopsies done, 3.6 per cent of all cancer autopsies. Diagnosis of MPMT was made only at autopsy in 24 cases (35.3 per cent). Thirty-six patients wer...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Lee TK,Myers RT,Scharyj M,Marshall RB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that there is a high prevalence of depression among the elderly, little research on the efficacy of psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy with the elderly has been reported in the literature. This paper describes a sample of 18 elderly patients who received both psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for the tr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Rothblum ED,Sholomskas AJ,Berry C,Prusoff BA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two concurrent studies of geriatric outpatients who received diagnoses of depression were conducted. In the first, patients were treated with one of two tricyclic antidepressants or with a placebo. In the second, patients were assigned to groups receiving either psychodynamic group therapy or cognitive-behavioral grou...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Jarvik LF,Mintz J,Steuer J,Gerner R

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elderly take more drugs than the young, and are therefore more susceptible to adverse drug interactions. Prescribing the minimum number of agents is recommended. Drug absorption, metabolism, and excretion may be altered by various interactions. Dose-response relationships of oral anticoagulants, oral hypoglycemics...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Reidenberg MM

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was carried out to determine which social, functional, or medical factors influenced the decision to admit or not to admit aged people to a general hospital in Israel. The study also focused on characteristics of patients admitted to the geriatric ward of the medical division as distinct from those...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Greenberg NS,Rosin AJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of age on glucose tolerance, insulin secretion, and in vivo insulin action (insulin clamp) was studied in 48 nonobese subjects, all of whom were fully ambulatory and in good general health. The observed age-related increase in fasting plasma glucose (r = 0.35, P less than 0.01) was not due to an increase in...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Rosenthal M,Doberne L,Greenfield M,Widstrom A,Reaven GM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary carcinoma of the appendix, though rare, occurs often enough to warrant its inclusion in diagnostic possibilities when the symptoms of acute appendicitis, without leukocytosis, are present in geriatric patients. A case of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix in an 88-year-old white woman is presented. The su...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Witt CB Jr,Herrmann VA

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To help determine whether or not the elderly are at unusually high risk for hospital-related complications, a study was made of consecutive admissions involving 48 patients less than 65 years old (mean 50.3 years) and 174 patients more than 65 years old (mean 73.1 years). They were prospectively followed during their ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Jahnigen D,Hannon C,Laxson L,LaForce FM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prescription drugs are not always taken as directed. When there is a discrepancy between the use of a drug and the prescription directions, the drug-taking behavior is considered "nonadherent." To determine the extent of prescription non adherence by old persons and the reasons for nonadherence, an in-home survey was ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Cooper JK,Love DW,Raffoul PR

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain atrophy in 154 men and 147 women without neurologic deficits was quantitatively studied by means of computed tomography. The ages ranged from 20 to 79 years. The volume percentage of brain to cranial cavity (Craniocerebral Index, or CCI) was calculated by means of computer programs available in CT systems. The m...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hatazawa J,Ito M,Yamaura H,Matsuzawa T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contemporary, systematic approaches to injury prevention are presented as guides for considering needless death and disability of older people because of falls, burns, and vehicular crashes. Injury results from an unfavorable relationship between etiologic agent and host within a particular environment setting. Abnorm...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hogue CC

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differing concepts of aging, i.e., a normative versus a pathologic process, are presented in historical perspective and are traced through selected writings from ancient China, India, Egypt, and Greece into more modern times. These is no consistent shift across epochs from one to the other perspective, and mixed persp...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Peterson M,Rose CL

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demographic information suggests that the problems of alcohol abuse among the elderly will increase at least in proportion to the population growth of that sector. While fewer older people drink and average consumption declines, four factors that promote alcohol abuse are noted. These are: 1) retirement, with its atte...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Brody JA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-administered questionnaires were sent to all faculty and staff members of the departments of internal medicine and psychiatry in a school of medicine. The questionnaires asked for information about personal characteristics, practice characteristics, and interest in teaching geriatrics. Included also were measures...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Coe RM,Miller DK,Prendergast JM,Grossberg G

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senile dementia is one of the important medical-social-economic problems facing our society, estimated to affect some 60% of nursing home patients and of persons residing in the community. The course of dementia in these patients is affected not only by their age, medical complications, and the disease itself, but als...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Aronson MK,Lipkowitz R

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative importance of dementia, gender, age and functional status (FS) was examined for relationships to mortality within five years after admission of the subjects to a New York City nursing home for the aged. Using a random sample of 212 of the nursing home's patients, a statistical model was developed to estim...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Vitaliano PP,Peck A,Johnson DA,Prinz PN,Eisdorfer C

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are reported of left atrial myxoma in elderly patients, diagnosed by combined M-mode and bidimensional echocardiography. One patient was an 80-year-old man presenting with typical signs of mitral obstruction by an atrial tumor. His symptoms were erroneously attributed to chronic bronchitis until an echocardi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Guillet P,Baconnet C,Labrousse A,Aigueperse I,Andre A,Grosgogeat Y,Laurenceau JL,Temkine J,Vanetti A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether normal aging interferes with the functional capability of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs), 6 tests of PMN function were performed in 285 healthy subjects whose ages ranged from 20 to 97 years. A second selection based upon blood measurement and a review of medical histories 6 months later, eli...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Corberand J,Ngyen F,Laharrague P,Fontanilles AM,Gleyzes B,Gyrard E,Senegas C

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 35 elderly patients with transtracheal aspirate (TTA)-documented nosocomial pneumonia, 7 (20 percent) had Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Clinical and epidemiologic data are reported on these 7 patients and on 2 others with nosocomial pneumococcal pneumonia documented by bacteremia. Malignancy and chronic ob...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Berk SL,Gallemore GM,Smith JK

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 78-year-old woman receiving perhexiline maleate for intractable angina pectoris, a syndrome of parkinsonism and peripheral neuropathy developed. The neuropathy was confirmed by electromyographic and nerve conduction studies. The parkinsonism and peripheral neuropathy disappeared when perhexiline maleate was disco...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Gordon M,Gordon AS

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Described is the development of a self-rating geriatric behavioral scale modeled after the Sandoz Clinical Assessment-Geriatric (SCAG). This new Self-Assessment Scale-Geriatric (SASG) provides a valid and reliable measure of behavioral pathologic changes for the selective screening of elderly patients who manifest mil...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Yesavage JA,Adey M,Werner PD

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective factors that have made it possible for an increasing proportion of the population to reach old age have nevertheless presented society with new problems and ethical dilemmas. Several questions that arise include:1) What are the responsibilities of the medical profession in providing medical care or supervisi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Goldman R

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 934 elderly patients admitted to the geriatric department of a general hospital, several admission laboratory tests were found to provide prognostic information. When tests were combined as a discriminant function, the matter of death or survival at six weeks after admission was predicted with 84 percen...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Hodkinson HM

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study an attempt was made to determine the relationship between cerebral amyloid angiopathy (AA) and other cerebrovascular lesions in the aged. The brains of 128 autopsy patients over 60 years of age were examined by both light and electron microscopy. The frequency of cerebral AA increased with age and was 58...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Tomonaga M

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although increased numbers of psychogeriatric patients have been placed in proprietary nursing homes in recent years, many facilities have not been able to accommodate the behavioral problems involved. This study summarizes the results of a behavior management program for improving the social functioning and social be...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Nigl AJ,Jackson B

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypochondriacal attitudes of 53 aged community residents were studied. No significant correlations were found with situational stress, sex, or ethnicity (English-speaking vs Spanish-speaking). The levels of hypochondriasis appeared to be inversely related to self-evaluation of memory ability. There was no indicati...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Brink TL,Janakes C,Martinez N

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to identify the demographic characteristics of patients aged 55 or older in a drug-overdose group admitted to the Emergency Department of Arizona Health Sciences Center during the 3-year period, August 1975-July 1978. Of the 646 overdose patients observed, 60 (9.5 percent) were aged 55 or old...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Schernitski P,Bootman JL,Byers J,Likes K,Hughes JH

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To prevent falls effectively, one must first understand the underlying reasons. Although environmental factors are sometimes to blame, the fundamental cause is a decline in postural control which is partly age-related and partly due to pathologic changes in the central nervous system. Dizziness is a common complaint a...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Overstall PW

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-nine male patients (median age 61, range 19-92) from a neurologic ward were examined by a test for prosopo-affective agnosia (PAA), i.e., impairment in the recognition of facial affect (emotions) with no impairment in the recognition of facial features (PA, prosopo-agnosia). The scores for patients without hemi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Kurucz J,Soni A,Feldmar G,Slade WR

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis was made of the records of 100 consecutive geriatric patients with community-acquired bacteremia, admitted to a suburban hospital. The most frequently identified tissue sources for these bacteremias were the urinary tract (34 percent), biliary tract (20 percent), and lungs (13 percent). In 11 ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Esposito AL,Gleckman RA,Cram S,Crowley M,McCabe F,Drapkin MS

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteochondritis dessicans of the hip is rare in comparison with occurrence of the disease in other joints. Only about 50 cases have been reported. The literature is reviewed, and a new case is presented. The patients was a 94-year-old Spanish American War Veteran who was unusally active and in good health until the on...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Cohen SL

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with diabetes mellitus and an underlying mixed axonal and demyelinating polyneuropathy are particularly prone to compression neuropathies with consequent axonal degeneration and a poor prognosis for recovery. This hazard should be taken into account whenever a prolonged surgical procedure is contemplated. An ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Massey EW,Pleet AB

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported prevalence of depressive symptomatology among the elderly ranges from 5 to 65 percent in hospital and community populations. Depression is considered the most common emotional disorder of advanced age. One of the chief diagnostic problems has been the lack of differentiation between disorders manifested b...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Blazer D

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy consecutive patients receiving warfarin as an anticoagulant were evaluated for the relationship between the response to the loading dose of warfarin and the response to the maintenance dose. No patients were excluded because of complicating diseases or the concurrent use of other drugs. There was a moderate co...

journal_title：Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

authors： Jones BR,Baran A,Reidenberg MM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00