[PDF] Top 20 Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction and Functional Capacity Among Elderly

... All subjects were participants of the PROSPER trial, designed to assess if pravastatin would reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in an elderly population with cardio- vascular disease or at high risk of ... See full document

... The elderly person receives the scores 1, 2 and 3 in case he/she is dependent, needs assistance, or is independent, ...The elderly person receives the score 1 if he/she has never done that activity, 2 if ... See full document

... Functional capacity indicators were assessed based on the OARS questionnaire, adapted for the Brazilian population ...the elderly lived by him or herself; if he or she had a caregiver (hired or ... See full document

... Functional capacity: Aging itself leads to a gradual, progressive decline in functional ...manner. Elderly people with normal cognitive functioning have, as a main characteristic, the ... See full document

... the elderly population has been associated to clinical manifesta- tions such as functional dependence, low cognitive performance, increased mortality and geriatric syndromes (dementia, delirium, depression ... See full document

... the Functional capacity of the elderly the Katz Index it was using in 91,6% of the studies and the Lawton-Brody it was using in 75% of the ...the functional capacity for the basic ... See full document

... the functional capacity of the longevity subjects, evaluated through the six-minute walk test (6MWT), the results showed that the longevitysubject’s functional capacity is ...good ... See full document

... Council. Thyroid function testing in the HUNT Study was financially supported by Wallac Oy (Turku, ...the Elderly (RIDE); the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; the Dutch Ministry for Health, ... See full document

... the functional capacity of the elderly can be mea- sured by Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scale that is widely used in clinical studies and community-based re- searches ...the elderly, ... See full document

... (NYHA) functional class III or IV] or electrocardiographic evidence of atrial fibrillation were ex- cluded as well as those with poor cognitive function (Mini Men- tal State Examination score ⬍ ...overt ... See full document

... of subclinical LV longitudinal systolic and diastolic function begin before struc- tural LV changes in asymptomatic patients with HF risk fac- ...myocardial dysfunction in early diabetic cardiomyopathy and ... See full document

... adequate thyroid replacement improves cardiac output accompanied by substantial decrease in systemic vascular resistance, a reversal of diastolic dysfunction, and importantly an improvement in left ... See full document

... 100 elderly patients aged ≥60 years both males and females recruited from the Geriatric Outpatient Clinical Al-Zahra General Hospital in Qatif city in Al-Sharqia region of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Mahmoud, ... See full document

... gland dysfunction is also known to manifest at later periods, the follow up duration in our study may not have completely captured all cases of salivary gland ...gland dysfunction on ...the ... See full document

... of subclinical LV systolic dysfunction can be made by a few echocardiographic methods [16- ...of subclinical LV systolic ...systolic dysfunction in HTN patients together with antihypertensive ... See full document

... low thyroid hormone value and higher achievement in psychoeducational tests at diagnosis were observed in pediatric endocrinologists' ...the thyroid-deficient state because of the decreased activ- ity ... See full document

... DHEA-S [17]. Our results with DHEA-S in hyperthyroid men showed opposite results compared to previous studies done by other researchers. They suggest that steroidogenesis could be activated by thyroid hormones in ... See full document

... prevalence may be due to the exclusion of patients above 60 years of age and the number of patients subjected for CT or MRI cervical spine. One patient who presented with vertigo, dysarthria, ipsi lateral numbness of the ... See full document

... The Thyroid gland regulates a wide range of physiological functions in the Body including growth, metabolism and ...of thyroid hormone clinical labnormalities and manifestation are identified by regular ... See full document

... binding capacity were measured in the studied groups at baseline, then haemoglobin level, serum ferritin, TSH, FT3, FT4 repeated among the studied patients after three months of oral iron supplementation ... See full document