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Body composition in the elderly: Reference values and bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy to predict total body skeletal muscle mass pot

... Original Article Body composition in the elderly: Reference values and bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy to predict total body skeletal muscle mass q Marja Tengvall a , ... muscle mass; TBSMM, total body skeletal muscle mass; FFM, fat free mass; BF, body fat; fatness, percentage body fat; FFMI, fat free mass index; BFI, body fat inde...

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Tài liệu Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly – Recognition, Diagnosis and Management docx

... distributing the numbers properly, or whether the patient perseverates or forgets the task and continues numbering past 12 • Ask the patient to placehandson the clockshowing the time to be10minutesafter11.Patients with ... 2008 Nosubjectivecomplaintsofmemorydecit.Nomemorydecitevidentonclinicalinterview. Subjectivecomplaintsofmemorydecit,mostfrequently...

Ngày tải lên : 13/02/2014, 18:20

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PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION OF MISSING TEETH AND ORAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY pptx

... at the midline, and along the infraorbital vertical line and the zycomatic vertical line representing the sites of the first premolar and the first molar. RRR was estimated by comparing the ... alveolar crest to the lowest border of mandible. The most inferior points of both orbits were joined to form the reference line. Distance between this line and hi...

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Healthy Lifestyle in the Elderly’s View in Romania and Latvia docx

... mean preventing diseases and abstaining from unhealthy habits or trying to maintain the functionality of the body and mind given by nature; not only maintaining, but also promoting one’s own ... only go to the doctor if they are feeling really sick. The aim of the paper. The paper reviews the discussions on healthy lifestyles and the attitudes of the elderl...

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 21:20

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Inappropriate Medication Use and Health Outcomes in the Elderly docx

... 0.517 to À 0.330) toward the null, indicating the strong confounding effect of the total number of prescriptions taken. Adding predisposing and enabling variables in Model C, the coefﬁcient remained virtually ... tend to invest more in education in an attempt to recoup more returns from the investment. Better-educated people in return are likely to be more produc...

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Weight loss and malnutrition in the elderly pptx

... healing, and an increase in complications including infections, pressure sores and skin ulcers. 1 Clinical features of protein energy malnutrition include reduced body weight, muscle wastage and ... burning and tingling of the hands and feet (parasthesia), dementia, glossitis and chelosis. Low vitamin B12 is also an independent risk factor in developing venous thromb...

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 14:20

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Attitudes, barriers and facilitators for health promotion in the elderly in primary care doc

... due to the fact that they had no opportunity to learn these things during their medical education. As a result they suggested integrating health promotion into under and postgraduate training. ... focus group interviews in Geneva, the interview guide was trans- lated into French. As an introduction to the discussion, we asked questions concerning the opinion of the GPs abo...

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Falls and Fall Prevention in the Elderly: Insights from Jamaica ppt

... established from the study, the co- existence of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the patients studied allude to the multi- factorial causation of falls and to the dynamic interplay of environment, ... curt and without details about the fall itself. These case histories /in- depth interviews provided windows to the confluence factors that result in a fal...

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Cambridge.University.Press.The.Crisis.of.Literature.in.the.1790s.Print.Culture.and.the.Public.Sphere.Nov.1999.pdf

... persevering inquiries into the intellectual and active powers of man, through which we have been able to refer to their common stock, and to trace back to their root the manifold, diverging, and ... is paid in this country to the morals of the proﬂigate and the poor’ (7 (1790): 438). Noting that to excite the spirit of industry, and to rear the infant po...

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Tài liệu Seasonal variation in the incidence of preeclampsia and eclampsia in tropical climatic conditions ppt

... 1993 to February 1996 to identify the total number of deliveries, total number of preeclampsia cases and the total number of eclampsia cases. The data was then divided into two groups based on the ... association will help us to gain further insight into the pathophysiology of this condition. Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing inter...

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