INTRODUCTION The aim of our study was to investigate and evaluate, in a multicenter study, the prevalence of malnutrition as well as the relationship between different anthropometric and biochemical markers with Mininutritional assessment (MNA) scores. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A representative sample of the institutionalized Spanish population aged 65 and older (stricly speaking, born in 1942 or ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a chronic disease with an incidence increasing steeply by age and affecting more than 11 million patients in Europe and the United States. Diagnosing AF is essential for the prevention of stroke by oral anticoagulation. Opportunistic screening for AF in patients ≥65 years of age is recommended by the European and Danish Societies of Cardiology. The study aim was to e...

The key to Seymour’s Regular Matroid Decomposition Theorem is his result that each 3-connected regular matroid with no R10or R12-minor is graphic or cographic. We present a proof of this in terms of signed graphs. 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 48: 74–84, 2005

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The risk of developing glaucoma increases dramatically with age (see table 1). OAG in people under age 40 is very rare (72), but in the Framingham, Massachusetts study, approximately 0.9 percent of people aged 65-69 and 4.4 percent of people aged 80-84 had the disease (94). Given this trend and the figures discussed above, a reasonable estimate of the total number of people over age 65 with OAG...

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One hundred thirty-three Streptococcus milleri group (S. anginosus) isolates were recovered from 487 surgical patients. The streptococci were recovered from 33 percent of intra-abdominal infection cultures (84/257). 22 percent of samples from penetrating visceral trauma (19/86), 52 percent of perirectal abscess specimens (13/25), 13 percent of nonpuerperal breast abscess cultures (8/60), and 15...

Studies of the epidemiology of stroke have greatly improved over the past 20 years because of 1) the development of new technology that improved classification of specific types of stroke (1), 2) better therapies that have reduced case fatality (1), 3) prevention of stroke (i.e., antihypertensive drug therapy) (1), and 4) health insurance, especially Medicare. Stroke cases can now be classified...