Two hundred subjects aged 60-89 were selected for a study aimed at defining a reference range for the erythrocyte sedimentation rate in the elderly. The study extended a previous survey in subjects aged 20-65. The results confirmed that the sedimentation rate increases with age and that women have higher values than men but suggested that over half of elderly patients with disease would have ra...

Cross-sectional age effects in normal control volunteers were investigated using magnetic resonance imaging in the following eight subcortical structures: lateral ventricles, thalamus, caudate, putamen, pallidum, hippocampus, amygdala and nucleus accumbens. Two hundred and twenty-six control subjects, ranging in age from 19 to 85 years, were scanned on a 1.5 T GE system (n=184) or a 3.0 T Sieme...

The current study is based on the hypothesis that aging predisposes gastric mucosa to carcinogenesis through altered expression and/or mutations of genes involved in cell growth. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the age-associated changes in mutation of adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), deleted in colorectal cancer (DCC), p53, and K-ras genes in the gastric mucosa of 19 healthy subjects...

normal range of joint motion is an important factor in joint examination in clinical practice which is related to factors such as age, sex and geographic region. there is no data in the literature on the range of joint motions in healthy iranian adults. we studied joint motions in 100 healthy volunteer subjects, 49 men and 51 women, from 19 and 58 years of age. the joint mobility was examined i...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the prevalence and demography of chronic daily headache (CDH) with analgesic overuse. METHODS A population of 9,984 inhabitants aged 14 or older living in Santoña, Spain, was studied. The authors personally interviewed 4,855 subjects, using a quota sampling approach. Those with headache for > or = 10 days/month and some analgesic use were asked to fill in a diary over the...

Purpose To analyze the age dependence of the longitudinal modulus of the crystalline lens in vivo using Brillouin scattering data in healthy subjects. Methods Brillouin scans were performed along the crystalline lens in 56 eyes from 30 healthy subjects aged from 19 to 63 years. Longitudinal elastic modulus was acquired along the sagittal axis of the lens with a transverse and axial resolution...

Forty-two cases of bacterial endocarditis with pathologic confirmation are reviewed. Infection was restricted to one or both left-sided valves in 31 cases, right-sided valves in five cases, and valves in both sides of the heart in six cases. In those specimens available for review, underlying valvular disease was identifiable in 24 of 38 cases (63%). The common underlying diseases, in order of ...