falls balance and gait disorders in the elderly

... further illuminate the situation regarding falls among the elderly in Jamaica [15] In examining the trauma registry records of the 152 hip fracture patients presenting at the ... known to increase risk of falling, providing further rationale for the assessment of, as feasible, the situation regarding falls and fall prevention in the elderly in Jamaica. Aims and Objectives ... 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

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... of finding oneself involuntarily on the ground The prevalence of falls in the elderly is high and strongly correlated with age, increasing from 30% in subjects over the age of 65 to 50% in subjects ... vitamin D on falls and bone fractures Epidemiology of vitamin D-related falls From an epidemiological point of view, vitamin D insufficiency is very frequent in the elderly and is dependent on the ... access to the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analyses Study concept and design: CA and OB Acquisition of data: CA and OB Analysis

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... population and an increment in the older one From Yancik & Ries, 2004 [1] , with permission Blood Disorders in the Elderly, ed Lodovico... and the in uence of these disorders on the ... to the management of cancer in the aging patient. This is followed by a full discussion of hematopoiesis and the changes it undergoes in aging. The remaining sections cover the diagnosis and ... Blood Disorders in the Elderly The 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

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... cytokines, and cognitive 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 ... and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). ADLs include trans- ferring, bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, and continence; dependence in one or more of these activities, with the ... assessment and their clinical utilization, we will discuss the meaning of the common geriatric terms frailty and disability, and we will conclude by trying to integrate the different information in

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... [10,11,91] During the last two decades there has been much progress in understanding the role of the immune system, pro -in ammatory cytokines [ 13] , gene interactions [92], point... progenitors ... antigen-specifi c proliferation in vivo. Since EBV is involved not only in lymphomas, but also in invasive breast cancer and in some tumors of the prostate and of the liver [68], it is possible ... the increased death risk from infections. Given that infections are a major cause of mor- bidity and mortality in the elderly, vaccination is an important prophylactic strategy. Infl uenza, in

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... utilization Iron is excreted by shedding of intestinal and skin cells, and through minor blood loss in the intestine In principle, the iron content of shed epithelial cells could be subject ... and MM 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, ... 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

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... roportin, a protein responsible for carrying the iron from the gastrointestinal tract into the circulation. Incidence and prevalence of cobalamin defi ciency increase with age [23,24], due to inability ... and reduce the management cost of the older aged person. After studying the epidemiology of anemia and aging, this chapter explores the adverse conse- quences of anemia in the elderly and the ... transferrin, which delivers iron for erythropoiesis in bone marrow by binding to the transferrin receptor (TfR) The interactions of these proteins regulate transferrin uptake and ferritin translation

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... benefi t in survival with other anthracyclines, daunorubicin remains the standard anthracycline of choice in elderly patients when given with cytarabine. The optimal dose of daunorubicin in elderly ... remains investigational. However, because of the high preva- lence of the MDR1 phenotype in the elderly popu- lation, there is continued investigation into the use of more potent and specifi c inhibitors ... Furthermore, in an expanded randomized study including 161 ALL patients, the cytarabine/mitoxantrone combination appeared superior to the. .. leukemia in the elderly: characteristics and

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... returns and treatment is again necessary, depending on the quality of the original response, re-treatment with the original therapy may be appropriate. Rituximab, initially introduced for the ... 914–16. Introduction Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a topic of increas- ing signifi cance in an aging population. According to the National Cancer Institute’s SEER program, the overall incidence ... monoclonal IgM and called Waldenström macroglobulinemia. Frequent sites of involvement include nodes, spleen, and the gas- trointestinal tract. The marrow is usually involved and up to 80%

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... chain of ricin – and with two-chain immunotoxins consisting of ricin... tyrosine kinase JAK2 [9] JAK2 is the cognate tyrosine kinase for the erythropoietin receptor, the thrombopoietin ... optimal combination – and sequencing – for administering fludarabine and an alkylating agent as combined therapy? The National Cancer Institute has sponsored revised guidelines for diagnosis and treatment ... patients, and eight of these died These results indicate that fludarabine is a potent regimen for initial induction therapy in previously untreated CLL, and the. .. combination of the two

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... [35] The. .. Antithrombotic therapy The pharmacology and management of the vitamin K antagonists Initiation and maintenance dosing Following the administration of warfarin, an initial ... In all other patients, the ICH rates were similar between the two groups remains uncertain whether this is due in part to the prehospital administration of fibrinolysis and the initial ... increases in the elderly, and the risk for ICH may increase in elderly patients receiving thrombolysis) However, if this increase is either linear or proportional for both wanted and

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 16:22

... that in the healthy group (mean ApEn = 0.13 ± 0.13). The higher ApEn values in the falls-risk group might indicate increased irregularities and randomness in their gait patterns and an indication ... cantly increase with an increase of mean MFC in falls risk gait. On the other hand, insignificant correlations (Table 3) in the healthy subjects indicate that MFC variability and its randomness insignificantly ... Higher ApEn values displayed in the falls-risk group might be an indication of randomness in the walking pattern of falls- risk elderly. On the other hand for healthy elderly subjects where MFC

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... issues, and the expectations of healthcare professionals and managers with an eye to determining the defining features of the intervention While improving and reorganizing elderly care in modern ... involved holding four focus groups with the same participants to refine the findings and to define the expected key features of the intervention The content of the focus group discussions was then iteratively ... including at the organizational level and not solely at the individual level While intervening at different levels – changing the behaviour of individual clinicians but also the structure and the

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... authors, and the study design in the first column, the age group of the sample in the sec- ond column, the timeframe of interviews in the third col- umn, and the main findings in the fourth column. These ... enrolled in the WIC program in Pittsburgh also identified four trajectories of symptoms of anxiety, including low, low-increasing, high- declining, and high-increasing groups [52]. In contrast to the ... declines, and sex com- positions largely explained these cohort effects [67]. Only single studies have examined determinants in the trajectories of either PTSD or mood and anxiety disorders combined

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... their diagnosis just before the patient was leaving the emergency room for either the observation unit of our ED or another ward, including the ICU. According to the final diagnosis made by the ... performed on inspiration with lung and soft kernels, and read on lung and mediastinal windows respectively. All the CT scans were interpreted again by a radiologist (CB) blinded for any clinical information ... less than eight hours in the emergency room before their admission into another ward. In accordance with standard practice in our institution for ARF in elderly patients, the performance of thoracic

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... determine the trade balance in Thailand and then to test the long-run relationship between the exchange rate and Thailand’s trade balance The empirical findings indicate that the exchange rate and ... Thailand’s currency and trade balance in terms of panel and individual country The empirical findings indicate that the exchange rate policy and relative growth rate of income play central roles in ... negative signs in cases of lower middle income and low income, in Africa and Western Asia, and Asia and Oceania In other words, a reduction in the relative growth rate of Thailand’s money supply

Ngày tải lên: 05/02/2020, 01:43

... 000 diagnosed cases in the USA annually [1] While incremental improvements in treating CLL have been observed in the past decade [2], the majority of clinical trials leading to these treatment approaches ... appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ... observed in older patients Whether these differences are related to disparities in therapeutic choice, access to care, non-CLL-related deaths in elderly patients, or variations in CLL biology and

Ngày tải lên: 19/09/2020, 21:31

... falling consistently increases as the number of these risk factors increases(Nevitt et al., 1989; Tinetti et al., 1988).The risk of falling increased in a cohort of elderly persons living in the ... long-term care institutions fall each year, and 40% of them experienced recurrent falls (Tinetti, 1987) Given incidence of falls it varies among countries The annual incidence of falls in China was ... year, and in half ofsuch cases the falls are recurrent(Nevitt, Cummings, Kidd, & Black, 1989; Tinetti, Speechley, & Ginter, 1988).The risk of falling and fall-related injury proportionately increases

Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2024, 16:12

... is in the other stream. The two streams flow together to be one stream and the sampling point St.4 is situated in the joined stream, which is the only stream that flows into the reservoir. The ... and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution of the citrus groves in Matsuyama region are shown in Fig. 1. Matsuyama is situated in Shikoku Island ... mainly cultivated. There are two small streams on the upper part of the hill and the streams flow together from 47 m above sea level. The water in the stream is the leachate from the grove and

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... 364 old elderly, born in 1904, 1909 and 1914 and living in Helsinki, was examined in 1990 and 1991 (Oral-HAS). The main objective of this thesis was to document the current status and later ... joined to form the reference line. Distance between this line and highest point of the maxillary alveolar crest was measured at the midline, and along the infraorbital vertical line and the ... health of the elderly. Only few studies have been performed on prosthetic rehabilitation of the elderly in Finland. The Mini-Finland study performed in 1978-1980 (Vehkalahti et al., 1991) included...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20