visual disease incidenceand prevalence in the elderly population

... Leipzig within the program of Open Access Publishing The funders were not involved in the design of the study, in collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, or in writing the manuscript ... al [6] for the SCD-syndrome as a potential pre-prodromal stage in AD, the likelihood of preclinical AD in individuals with SCD is increased by the following features: SCD onset within the last ... cued recall The test requires individuals to recognize the ten words presented earlier in the Word List Learning test among ten other distractor words The maximum score is 20 including the ten correctly

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... policies in China We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the prevalence of passive smoking in the com-munity population aged 15 years and older in China and examined the prevalence ... meta-analysis on the preva-lence of passive smoking in China obtained the opposite results, indicating that the prevalence of passive smoking was greater in rural areas than in urban areas.65 ... a remarkable increase in the prevalence of passive smoking among males, particularly from 2002 to 2010, and found that the differences in the overall prevalence and the prevalence in urban and

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... are involved in falls among the elderly Many of these factors can be modified Figure 1 shows how intrinsic and extrinsic factors can combine to change the likelihood of falling in the elderly ... intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community N Engl J Med 1994;331:821-7 TABLE 8 Critical Steps in Reducing the Risk of Falls in the Elderly Eliminate ... programs can reduce the rate of falls in the elderly In one study,34 the interactive group had a relative risk of falling of 0.39 compared with the control group Interventions included the modification

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... Disorder The extent of the psychiatric morbidity and mortality that develops in people depends on the type of disaster, the degree of injury sustained, the type of disaster, the degree of injury ... Counseling Client vs Traditional Psychotherapy Patient• Setting (where the individual lives) and existing infrastructure affects ability to access resources Crisis Counseling Strategies Provide information ... post-disaster) 2 Knowing about the types of available interventions makes it easier to: Trang 5The Disaster CycleThe Disaster Cycle and Related Interventions taking preventive actions, avoiding hazards

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... minimize the injuries sustained from falls was recommended Williams-Johnson, Wilks, and McDonald further illuminate the situation regarding falls among the elderly in Jamaica [15] In examining ... preceding 1 year period, the expert provided further opinions, insights and data, based on experience at the University Hospital of the West Indies, the leading tertiary care and medical teaching institution ... of the West Indies Mona, Jamaica Trang 2Abstract Falls among the elderly is increasingly being recognized as an issue of concern in both developed and developing countries Falls in the elderly

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... exclusion in the study g *Percent of elderly having received influenza vaccination in the previous year; **percent of elderly having ever received influenza vaccination h Community living elderly; I: institutionalized ... markers in predicting responsiveness to influenza vaccination in elderly individuals J Virol 2001;75:12182–7 Beyer WE, Palache AM, Baljet M, Masurel N Antibody induction by influenza vaccines in the elderly: ... community Institutional living: elderly live in an institution and are dependent on care Mixed living: elderly live in either an institution or in the community Dichotomous; omitting ‘mixed’ residence

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... individual in 11 aspects of life mapped to domains and sub-domains of the ICF: mobility within the home, mobility outside the home, self-care, looking after belong-ings, looking after the home, looking ... (n=2227) Missing KAP data in 2005 (n=293) Responders who completed the KAP in the 3yr Health Survey in 2005 and were included in the analysis (n=3709) Mailed baseline health questionnaire in 2002 ... and age for the remaining nine aspects of life Persistence was greater in women than men for four aspects of life (looking after the home, looking after belongings, interpersonal interaction,

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... whilst the prevalence of obesity was 14.3% in males and 20.1% in females These results are compatible with the prevalence of obesity recorded in other countries [7] Problems arising from the increase ... and the BMI value in the general population [25,26] Therefore, the aim of our research was to assess the association between the BMI value and health-related quality of life in the urban population ... smoking, physical exercise other than walking and walking (Model 3), the lower HRQL was independ-ently linked to overweight only in females Similar results were obtained in model 4 which also included

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... Increased fall risk in elderly individuals According to the World Health Organization, a fall is defined as the action of finding oneself involuntarily on the ground The prevalence of falls in ... elderly subjects in physical activity was their lack of interest in physical activity In view of these two difficulties, together with the high financial cost of setting up population-based intervention ... Experimentally, in animals, vitamin D is involved in neurophysiology and regulates the metabolism of neurotransmitters including dopamine, acetylcholine, serotonin and gamma aminobutyric acid [70,78], and the

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... varia-bility in the healthy elderly is lower than that in the falls risk elderly Higher mean MFC in the falls risk elderly group supports our previous findings [4] which showed that increasing the MFC ... Since the underlying mechanism involved in the human locomotor control has been reported to be mainly complex and nonlinear [5-7], the application of nonlinear technique seems appropri-ate In ... problem, and compare the results with those obtained using Poincaré plot indexes analysis Minimum foot clearance (MFC) during walking Figure 1 Minimum foot clearance (MFC) during walking Verti-cal

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... conducted without further advice for another 4 weeks. The control was instructed to maintain their current physical activity level. Oxygen economy at 2 minutes (2minVO 2 ), 4 minutes (4minVO 2 ), VO ... progression of the exercise training programme was provided, and participants were instructed to maintain the exercise as of week 8 for the final 4 weeks. This was to evaluate if there was any further ... purposes) time point in the control group. There was a trend for a decrease in TNF-α from baseline within the exercise group compared to the control group. Discussion The data from the study confirmed

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... Disorders in the ElderlyThe developed world has an increasingly aging population, with approximately 10% of the population aged over 65 years As the incidence and prevalence of blood disorders increases ... support for the elderly at the very same time that the number of elderly is increasing There is general agreement that the aging of the population will lead to a substantial cost in health care ... physicians involved in the management of older patients, as a springboard for scientists interested in the biology of aging and its clinical consequences, and as an operat-ing system able to organize incoming

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... daily living (IADL). ADLs include trans- ferring, bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, and continence; dependence in one or more of these activities, with the exception of incontinence, indi- ... maturity, the putative endpoint... fell in D2 mice while they continued to rise in the B6 mice Thus, we surmised that the aging of the stem cells in these two strains differed according ... decline in community-dwelling elderly. .. aging may affect the staining profiles of HSCs and their What is aging? When does it begin? What are its targets? These are questions for which there

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... immuno-therapy and effective control over viral infections in the elderly [92] Trang 4The research described in this chapter has been supported in part by the NIH and the UCLA Center on Aging Dr ... reported in older individuals [9–15] Despite these changes, hematopoiesis appears adequate to maintain the homeostasis of the periph-eral blood elements both in healthy elderly persons and in aging ... [10,11,91] During the last two dec-ades there has been much progress in understanding the role of the immune system, pro-infl ammatory cytokines [13], gene interactions [92], point muta-tions,

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... express the IL-6 mRNA, and support the hypothesis of autocrine synthesis of IL-6 in these patients Most investigators, however, agree that the contribution of autocrine IL-6 is minimal, and there ... bromode-oxyuridine (BRD-URD) incorporation and double immunoenzymatic labeling on cytological smears [86] The BRD-URD is incorporated into the nucleus of cells synthesizing DNA The plasma-cell labeling index ... receptor interaction in the absence of interleukin-6 Eur Cytokine Netw 1999; 10: 43–8. 39 Gaillard JP, Liautard J, Klein B, Brochier J Major role of the soluble interleukin-6/interleukin-6 receptor

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... of daily living Feeding, Bathing, Dressing, Transferring, Toileting Instrumental activities of daily living Finances, Telephone, Medications, Shopping, Cooking Housework, Ambulating, Laundry ... therapy Individual psychotherapy Supportive psychotherapy Cognitive behavioral therapy Group therapy Family therapy Caregiver support group therapy Treatment Evidence-based research minimal Elderly ... Assessment ADLs • mobility, dressing, hygiene, feeding and toileting IADLs • independent living, shopping, cooking, telephone, housekeeping (light), medications, finances, transportation Evaluation...

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... during experimental stress Type D was also associated with a decreased activity in the amygdala in response to fearful expressions [10], suggesting inadequate emotion-processing in the brain Finally, ... endothelial progenitor cells [47] in cardiac patients These initial findings are promising, but more research is needed to examine the cardiovascular effects of stress in apparently healthy individuals ... the editor etc.), (3) if they were published in peer-review journals, and (4) if they were written in English Studies were excluded for the following reasons; (1) if they included a patient population, ...

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... in asthma in the Kainuu subpopulation and obtained evidence for linkage in a 20-cM region of chromosome 7p14-p15 for three phenotypes: asthma, IgE and the combination of the phenotypes (Laitinent ... implicated in causing or contributing to the development of a particular disease Gene: An individual unit of heredity Gene is the segment of DNA involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it includes ... atopic diseases can be summarized as the following steps (Koppelman et al., 2001) 1) The definition of atopic diseases In genetics study, the right definition is especially important If the definition...

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... Trevino SC, Ybarra D The effect of a multivitamin on the immunologic response to the in uenza vaccine in the elderly Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice Vol 10, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ... and deaths from in uenza Description of the intervention Vaccines have been the main global weapon to minimise the impact of in uenza in the elderly for the last four decades In the year 2000, ... good coverage in those who most need it or the diluting effect on vaccines for in uenza of other agents circulating in the community (causing ILI, clinically indistinguishable from in uenza), might...

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