Twenty four young (mean age 29.2 years, range 25-35) and 21 elderly (mean age 66.5, range 60-80) healthy subjects collected their urine in timed aliquots over 24 hours. The elderly subjects had been selected for their fitness by clinical and laboratory examinations and all lived independently at home. Sodium and potassium excretions were reduced in the elderly subjects compared with the young s...

abstract   background: postural instability has been identified as a potential precursor of falls in elderly subjects. postural stability in quiet stance is commonly assessed with center of pressure (cop) measures. the purpose of this study was to determine testretest reliability and minimal detectable change (mdc) for the center of pressure (cop) measures in the elderly subjects.   methods: ei...

Objective: To understand the nursing relationships in care of elderly Primary Care from perspective Foucault's theoretical-philosophical framework. Method: Qualitative study content analysis. The subjects were nurses Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. For data collection, five focus groups held with 8 participants. Results: following categories emerged: adequate support for elderly, nurse de...

AIMS The objective of this study was to compare the pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of the antiepileptic drug felbamate in young and elderly healthy vounteers. METHODS The single and multiple dose pharmacokinetics of felbamate were examined in an open-label two-dose level parallel group study in 24 elderly (66 to 78-year-old) and 11 young (18 to 45-year-old) healthy volunteer subjec...

OBJECTIVES To establish a method for the development of a mathematical model of autonomic activity in gastrointestinal movements and to basically evaluate of the application of the nonlinear analysis method to electrogastrography, we performed feature extraction of electrogastrographic changes in healthy elderly and gastrectomized subjects. METHODS The subjects consisted of 9 healthy elderly ...