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Globally, the population of elderly people is rising with an increasing number of people living with dementias. This trend is coupled with a prevailing need for compassionate caretakers. A key challenge in dementia care is to assist the person to sustain communication and connection to family, caregivers and the environment. The use of social commitment robots in the care of people with dementia has...
There is increasing evidence that life-style factors, such as nutrition, physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption have a profound modifying effect on the epidemiology of most major chronic conditions affecting midlife health.To provide guidance concerning the effect of diet on morbidity and mortality of the most frequent diseases prevalent in midlife and beyond.Literature review and consensus...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of diabetes mellitus (DM) on cancer stage at diagnosis, cancer recurrence, and survival of endometrial cancer (EC) patients and the influence of the treatment of EC on glycaemic control, treatment, and complications of DM.In this retrospective cohort study all 1644 patients with EC newly diagnosed in 2000–2008 and recorded in the population-based...
To study the independent association of fat mass (FM) and lean mass (LM) with bone mass and to study the differences in bone mass by weight and fat status in 223 seniors (aged 65–89 years) from the city of Zaragoza (Spain), after controlling for age, height, physical activity (PA) and LM.Cross-sectional study.LM, FM, bone mineral content (BMC) and density (BMD) were measured with dual energy X-ray...
To collect health information of Beijing middle-aged registered nurses during menopause.We distributed self-administered questionnaires to 2100 registered nurses aged 40–55 from 20 hospitals in Beijing. The objects of interest were selected by cluster sampling.A total of 1686 questionnaires met the criteria and were used for statistical analysis. The average natural menopause age was 48.68±3.61 years...
At the 2012 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, two studies of preoperative systemic therapy for localized prostate cancer garnered significant attention. In the first, investigators evaluated various permutations of conventional hormonal therapies prior to prostatectomy, with detailed biomarker studies focused on tissue androgens. In the second, investigators assessed the...
Original Fried's frailty criteria have not demonstrated their prognostic validity of mortality, disability and mobility loss in European cohorts.To analyze whether frailty implies increased risk of death, incident disability in basic (BADL) or instrumental (IADL) activities of daily living, or mobility impairment.Concurrent cohort study.Albacete City, Spain.993 participants over age 70 from the FRADEA...
To establish if there is any gender difference in associations between chronic pain, impact of pain and pain severity with physical disability.Data from the New South Wales Older People's Health Survey (OPHS), a population based survey of 8881 older people aged 65 years and above were used in the analysis. Chronic pain, pain with interference and pain severity and outcome variable of physical disability...
The metaphor of a frail older person as a car running out of petrol seems to have resonance in the lay media. Though it may be an over simplistic representation of a complex and dynamic process, it does facilitate discussion with patients and their relatives about the appropriateness of interventions, such as whether or not there is enough fuel (physiological reserves) to get up a really steep hill...
Reliability of self-reports in survey research is important. Little is known about the reliability of self-reports in the very old (aged 80+). The objective of this study is to evaluate the level of reliability in self-reports by assessing the level of agreement between a “respondents” and their “informants” (children) as they rate the respondent's: hearing ability; vision capacity; and nine health...
In this work the aims, methodology and procedures of a case–control study that was developed for assessing the role of dietary habits, eating behaviors and environmental factors on the development of breast cancer, is presented. During 2010–2012, 250 consecutive women patients, newly diagnosed with breast cancer and 250 population-based, healthy subjects (controls) age-matched to the cases, were enrolled...
Identification of measures of physical function that mediate or link impaired physical ability with disability in activities of daily living (ADL) is necessary to facilitate the development of interventions to prevent or delay the onset of ADL disability. We examined whether measures of physical function at baseline are determinants of the Short Physical Performance Battery, as measure of physical...
Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is defined as a primary ovarian defect characterized by absent menarche (primary amenorrhea) or premature depletion of ovarian follicles before the age of 40 (secondary amenorrhea) with hypergonadotropism and hypoestrogenism.We studied the clinical, biological, and genetic data related to 50 POI patients with a mean age of menopause of 29years (94% with secondary...
To analyze the time trends in anti-osteoporosis medications consumption in Spain between 2000 and 2008 and the influence on such consumption induced by the Information Sheets related to the safety of menopausal hormone therapy and strontium ranelate published by the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).Purchase data of anti-osteoporosis medications from 2000 to 2008 were obtained...
Whether there is any association between urinary incontinence and menopause is the subject of debate, partly due to the fact it is difficult to tell the difference between the effects of menopause and those of ageing. For some time it was hoped that hormonal treatment for menopause would be beneficial for urinary incontinence because there are hormonal receptors in the urinary tract. The goal of this...
The ketogenic diet was first developed in the 1920s as a treatment for epilepsy in an attempt to create a prolonged physiologic starvation state. Since that time, the diet has been found to have other therapeutic effects, most of which are neurologic. Other diets, mostly based on the principals of caloric restriction, have been shown to improve fertility in certain populations. We explore the data,...
To determine the contribution of life style and health related factors on vitamin D status in middle-aged and older men and women.A cross-sectional single-center study in 400 male subjects (40–80 years) and 402 postmenopausal female subjects (56–73 years), conducted in a University Medical Center in the central part of the Netherlands (52 degrees northern latitude).Medical history, vitamin D, calcium...
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