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Strength, power and functional ability in healthy elderly people.
... height. Healthy men do not have difficulty with these functional tasks, except for stepping ability in the 85-89 age ...f healthy women aged 85-89 were able to climb a step equivalent to those heights seen ...
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Swallowing difficulties among healthy elderly: prevalence and aetiology
... among elderly are neuromuscular disorders, degenerative neurological syndromes like dementia and upper digestive tract ...the elderly, who are otherwise healthy are also at risk of developing ...
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Frequency of Vitamin B12 Deficiency in apparently Healthy Elderly in Sudan
... apparently healthy elderly individuals in order to evaluate their health status though B12 levels, even with absence of symptoms specific to deficiency if it ...them healthy to live long enough ...
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Biochemistry reference intervals for healthy elderly population in Asmara, Eritrea
... sampled, healthy elderly subjects living in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, for at least 6 months were enrolled in from March 2016 through June ...
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Effect of aspirin on disability free survival in the healthy elderly
... Most previous large trials of aspirin have fo- cused on reducing the incidence of cardiovascu- lar events as their primary end point. However, in this age group, the long-term use of a preven- tive drug may be justified ...
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The impact of positive psychological interventions on well being in healthy elderly people
... intervention and control groups were similar, 4) follow-up rates: whether the percentage of follow-up was complete, 5) dropout: whether the dropout rate was described and acceptable, 6) blinding assessor: whether ...
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Foci of increased T2 signal intensity on brain MR scans of healthy elderly subjects
... The purpose of this study is to determine the presence and extent of increased T2 signal intensity lesions in a population of healthy elderly subjects collected for future prospective st[r] ...
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APOE -by-sex interactions on brain structure and metabolism in healthy elderly controls
... As illustrated, male APOE4 carriers showed increased metabolism in several clusters in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with respect to male APOE4 non-carriers after the inclusion of C[r] ...
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Effect of aspirin on all cause mortality in the healthy elderly
... In conclusion, among healthy adults who did not have an indication for aspirin use and were predominantly 70 years of age or older at enrollment, all-cause mortality was apparently highe[r] ...
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The Mechanical Behavior of the Lungs in Healthy Elderly Persons
... The observation that young and elderly subjects have substantially the same end-expiratory transpulmonary pressures during quiet breathing indicates that the larger functional residual c[r] ...
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Effect of aspirin on cardiovascular events and bleeding in the healthy elderly
... 14. De Berardis G, Lucisano G, D’Ettorre A, et al. Association of aspirin use with major bleeding in patients with and with- out diabetes. JAMA 2012; 307: 2286-94. 15. Andreotti F, Rocca B, Husted S, et al. ...
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Intelligence and Medial Temporal Lobe Function in Older Adults: A Functional MR Imaging–Based Investigation
... among elderly participants, higher education was associated with increased frontal activity, whereas lower education was associated with increased MTL ...in healthy elderly subjects, as quantified by ...
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A computerized neuropsychological test battery designed for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
... We have developed a novel computerized neuropsycho- logical test battery customized for the evaluation of com- municating hydrocephalus and INPH. Computerization makes test delivery and scoring standardized. The imple- ...
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Respiratory Muscle Strength Evaluation in Healthy Adult and Elderly Women—Respiratory Muscle Strength Assessment in Adult and Elderly
... In healthy elderly, on the other hand, the main functional alterations of the respiratory apparatus include the reduction of chest wall complacency, respiratory muscle strength, vital ca- pacity and ...
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MR Signal Abnormalities at 1 5 T in Alzheimer's Dementia and Normal Aging
... The similar extent, frequency, and distribution of the deep On the basis of the above discussion ,-.9ne may speculate white-matter signal abnormalities seen in both healthy elderly that [r] ...
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The beneficial effects of cognitive training with simple calculation and reading aloud in an elderly postsurgical population: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Learning therapy consists of two simple and easy training tasks (reading Japanese aloud and solving easy arithmetic) derived from knowledge of neuroscience. Brain imaging studies indicate that reading sentences or words ...
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A preliminary study on the effects of star fruit consumption on antioxidant and lipid status in elderly Thai individuals
... 24 elderly subjects were required for this ...40 healthy elderly subjects (20 males and 20 females) aged between 54 and 87 years from the Piyaman Elderly Health Care Center in Chiang Mai ...
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1 Epigenetic Factors in Late-Onset Alzheimer’s disease: 2 MTHFR and CTH Gene Polymorphisms, Metabolic
... Homocysteine, vitamin B12, and folic acid levels in Alzheimer’s disease, mild 526. cognitive impairment, and healthy elderly: Baseline characteristics in subjects of the Australian Imag[r] ...
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The six-minute walk test in community dwelling elderly: influence of health status.
... 'healthy' elderly (50–85 years old) participants of Troost- ers et ...completely healthy elderly from the apparently healthy and to distinguish among the appar- ently healthy ...
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Gender differences in healthy life expectancy among Brazilian elderly
... Investigations on gender differences in health among older people are crucial given some facets of population aging, such as premature mortality among men and feminization of old age [41]. Considering that the advan- ...
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