نتایج جستجو برای: impaired elderly

تعداد نتایج: 256704  

2011
Hiroyuki Shimada Megumi Suzukawa Tatsuro Ishizaki Kumiko Kobayashi Hunkyung Kim Takao Suzuki

BACKGROUND Objective measurements can be used to identify people with risks of falls, but many frail elderly adults cannot complete physical performance tests. The study examined the relationship between a subjective risk rating of specific tasks (SRRST) to screen for fall risks and falls and fall-related fractures in frail elderly people. METHODS The SRRST was investigated in 5,062 individua...

Journal: :iranian journal of public health 0
jiana shi 1. dept. of pharmacy, the second affiliated hospital, school of medicine, zhejiang university, no. 88 jiefang road, hangzhou 310009 , china ; 2. dept. of pharmacy, tongde hospital of zhejiang province, hangzhou 310012 , china. huimin xu 1. dept. of pharmacy, the second affiliated hospital, school of medicine, zhejiang university, no. 88 jiefang road, hangzhou 310009 , china.

a 73-year-old female patient developed a generalized tonic-clonic seizure on the 6th day after treatment with moxifloxacin 400 mg daily intravenously for appendicitis. this patient had atrial fibrillation and history of a surgery for intracerebral hemorrhage, with impaired renal function and liver function, but without history of seizures. moxifloxacin was discontinued and switched to cefuroxim...

2012
Hua Cui Guoliang Huo Lin Liu Li Fan Ping Ye Jian Cao Yongyi Bai Fan Wang Yixin Hu

BACKGROUND The data are inconsistent regarding whether extreme N-terminal fragment pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT pro-BNP) levels are associated with impaired renal function. Furthermore, the relationship between extreme NT pro-BNP levels and cardiac and renal function in elderly patients has not been reported. The aim of the present study was to examine a hypothesis that extreme NT pro-BNP...

Journal: :Psychophysiology 1998
C A Joyce K A Paller H K McIsaac M Kutas

We examined performance in young and elderly on an implicit (lexical decision) and an explicit (recognition) memory test. The difference in lexical decision times between old and new words was equivalent in the two groups, although the elderly were slower. In both groups, recognition accuracy (lower in the elderly) was higher following semantic than nonsemantic encoding, whereas lexical decisio...

Journal: :Journal of immunology 2012
Heather W Stout-Delgado Sarah E Vaughan Anushree C Shirali Richard J Jaramillo Kevin S Harrod

The NLRP3 inflammasome is activated in the lung during influenza viral infection; however, the impact of aging on inflammasome function during influenza infection has not been examined. In this study, we show that elderly mice infected with a mouse-adapted strain of influenza produced lower levels of IL-1β during in vitro and in vivo infection. Dendritic cells from elderly mice exhibited decrea...

Journal: :acta medica iranica 0
yones lotfi department of audiology, university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, tehran, iran. ahmad reza nazeri department of audiology, university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, tehran, iran. ali asgari department of psychology and education, kharazmi university, tehran, iran. abdollah moosavi department of otorhinolaryngology, school of medicine, iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. enayatollah bakhshi department of biostatistics, university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, tehran, iran.

evaluation of communication abilities in the elderly is crucial for activities which will be performed to improve their quality of life. a valid and reliable questionnaire is needed for assessing communication abilities. we aimed to translate and validate the speech, spatial, and qualities of hearing scale (ssq) in iran. the forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the questionnaire ...

2011
Motoko Miyake Yukiko Ogawa Yukie Yoshida Masahide Imaki

Malnutrition has been widely regarded as a healthcare problem among elderly people. The serum albumin level is usually used to assess nutritional status, with less than 3.5g/dl of serum albumin concentration defined as ''hypoalbuminemia''. Low serum albumin level was related with poor health status among not only institutionalized or hospitalized elderly people, but also community-dwelling elde...

Journal: :Diabetes care 2002
Paul B Leurs Ronald P Stolk Karly Hamulyak René Van Oerle Diederick E Grobbee Bruce H R Wolffenbuttel

OBJECTIVE Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) is believed to be a prediabetic phase that precedes the development of type 2 diabetes. In elderly subjects, IGT and diabetes are both independently associated with the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. Endothelial damage precedes atherosclerotic changes of the vascular wall. Therefore, several markers of endothelial dysfunction were examined in el...

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