Browsing by Subject "Elderly"
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(2006)Background: It has been proposed that the toll-like receptor-4 gene (TLR4) may participate in the development of obesity and osteoporosis, in addition to its well-known role in the immune response. On the other hand, the ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)El delirium corresponde a un síndrome clínico frecuente y relevante en el adulto mayor hospitalizado. Su incidencia e impacto han sido reconocidos desde hace más de 30 años y su importancia en la atención del adulto mayor ...
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(2004)Background and aims: Air displacement plethysmography with the BOD-POD is a new densitometry technique, and has been found to be an accurate method to measure body composition. The aim of this study was to assess body ...
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(2009)Aging suffers prejudices against it. Even among professionals who practice gerontology. A dangerous and common one is to consider that all the elderly are sick or unable. The relationship doctor-patient is the key stone ...
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(MDPI, 2020)Whether the affinity of serum vitamin E with total lipids hampers the appropriate assessment of its association with age-related risk factors has not been investigated in epidemiological studies. We aimed to compare linear ...
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(Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI), 2020)Background: Infectious diseases are one of the most causes of hospitalization and death in adults in the elderly and this population is prone to develop complications and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic changes. Objectives: ...
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(Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2015)Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia de somnolencia leve y excesiva y qué factores están asociados a la presencia de somnolencia diurna en adultos mayores. Métodos: Participaron 1.780 adultos mayores de 60 anos, ˜ autónomos, ...
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(Universidad Costa Rica, Facultad Odontología, 2022)Periodontitis is a low-grade inflammatory disease caused by a subgingival dysbiotic microbiota. Multiple studies have determined the higher prevalence of tooth loss and poor oral hygiene in patients with Alzheimer's disease ...
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(2007)S. pneumoniae is a significant cause of community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly, and accounts for the majority of the pneumonia deaths among the elderly. We conducted this randomized double-blind study to evaluate the ...
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(Universidad de Jaén, 2020)Este artículo constituye una reflexión en torno al papel relevante que ofrece la Educación Artística en la tercera edad, tomando como punto de partida nuestra experiencia pedagógica en el desarrollo de talleres de expresión ...
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(MDPI, 2022)Dietary habits are determinants in the development of a range of conditions and age-related diseases. We explored the associations of sociodemographic, health-related indicators, and health behavioral factors on dietary ...
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(Frontiers Media S.A., 2017)© 2017 Moreno-Gómez, Véliz, Rojas, Martínez, Olmedo, Panussis, Dagnino-Subiabre, Delgado and Delano. The perception of music depends on the normal function of the peripheral and central auditory system. Aged subjects without ...
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(W.B. Saunders, 2017)© 2016 Elsevier Inc.Purpose Delirium has negative consequences such as increased mortality, hospital expenses and decreased cognitive and functional status. This research aims to determine the impact of occupational therapy ...
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(2010)The increasing elderly population in our country generates a series of questions regarding the mechanisms that help or hinder their social integration. Our research aimed to reveal, through the implementation of a national ...
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(2013)Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the oral health status and the factors associated with oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in people aged 65 and older institutionalized in Barcelona in ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Objective: The aim of the current study is to assess the performance of the staggered spondaic word Spanish Version (SSW-SV) in a group of older adults with bilateral hearing loss.Materials and methods: A retrospective ...
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(Medicina Oral, España, 2021)Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD), the main cause of dementia in the adult population, is characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive function. It is considered that neuroinflammation plays a fundamental role in ...
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(2011)The aim of this study was to determine anthropometric and physiological patterns and compare the effect of physical activity in older adults from Arica, Chile. One hundred elderly aged from 60 years on, participated in ...
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(Wiley, 2022)Background Elderly patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are usually excluded from major trials. Hyopthesis This study sought to assess 1-year clinical ...