The interest in new beer products, which has been growing for several years, forces technologists and brewers to look innovative raw materials, such as hops, sources of carbohydrates or yeast. aim the presented study was evaluate effect selected Saccharomyces (Saccharomyces paradoxus (CBS 7302), S. kudriavzevii 3774), cerevisiae (Safbrew T-58)) non-Saccharomyces yeast (W. anomalus 5759), Ha. uv...

Abstract The aim of the paper was to determine potential using grape pulp, marc and must in beer production process. Samples were fermented non- Saccharomyces yeasts ( Dekkera bruxellensis 3429, Metschnikowia pulcherrima MG970690) cerevisiae Safale US-05 used as a control. Grape obtained by pressing with press. Subsequently, marc, pulp pasteurized and, together wort, volumetrically introduced i...

Methods: We defined PIRx using the combined version of the Beers criteria. Data were from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Nursing Home Component. The study sample included 3372 residents, 65 years and older, who had nursing home stays of 3 consecutive months or longer in 1996. We performed multivariate logistic regression analyses of longitudinal data using generalized estimating equa...

Dear Editor, We read the recently published article by Lucchetti et al.1 and we have an important comment to make on this study. The objective was to assess the drugs in the Farmácia Dose Certa (“Right Dose Pharmacy”) program that were considered to be inappropriate for the elderly. The authors used the criteria developed by Beers and updated by Fick in 2003 to assess the appropriateness of dru...

0950-3293/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.foodqual.2008.05.001 * Corresponding author. Address: Institut Supérieu Vauban, 59046 Lille Cedex, France. Tel.: +33 3 28 38 4 E-mail addresses: [email protected], lelievrema In the sensory evaluation literature, it has been suggested that sorting tasks followed by a description of the groups of products can be used by consum...

AIM To compare the risk of unplanned hospitalization in high-care nursing home residents taking Beers potentially inappropriate medications (PIM) against that of other elderly. METHODS Using an enhanced case-time-control design and conditional logistic regression applied to the pharmaceutical claims and other linked data of 245436 Western Australians aged ≥ 65 years (1993-2005), the study der...

PURPOSE The use of multiple and/or inappropriate medications in seniors is a significant public health problem, and cancer treatment escalates its prevalence and complexity. Existing studies are limited by patient self-report and medical record extraction compared with a pharmacist-led comprehensive medication assessment. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively examined medication use in ambu...

PURPOSE This study aims to assess inappropriate prescribing (IP) to elderly patients during the month prior to hospitalization and to compare different IP criteria. METHODS An observational, prospective and multicentric study was carried out in the internal medicine services of seven Spanish hospitals. Patients aged 75years and older were randomly selected after hospital admission for a year....

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to identify potentially inappropriate prescribing using the Beers and STOPP criteria. The START criteria were applied to detect prescription omission in the geriatric population. We compared the utility of these criteria in institutionalised older people. METHODS Descriptive study reviewing the medication and clinical records of 81 residents (aged 65 year...

BACKGROUND Increased availability of low/er strength alcohol products has the potential to reduce alcohol consumption if they are marketed as substitutes for higher strength products rather than as additional products. The current study compares the main marketing messages conveyed by retailers and producers for low/er and regular strength wine and beer products. METHODS A content analysis of...