probiotics and prebiotics in elderly individuals

... living-instrumental activity of daily living (ADLIADL) without help e.g dressing, transferring from bed, toileting or taking bath, preparation of food, eating, shopping and walking Height and ... Although in bi-variate analysis no gender difference was detected in disability, yet in logistic regression analysis after eliminating the influence of other factors, risk of disability increased in ... Health of the elderly in a community in transition: a survey in Thiruvananthapuram City, Kerala, India Int J Aging Hum Dev 1997;44:293-315 Gupta HL, Yadav M, Sundarka MK, Talwar V, Saini M, Garg...

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... Schlossberg NK: Counseling adults in transitions: Linking practice with theory New York: Springer; 1995 29 Mullet E: Studying, working, and living in another UE country: French youth’s point of view European ... stimulating and promising Competing interests KP has no conflict of interest FM has no conflict of interest MA has no conflict of interest IB has no conflict of interest PBG has no conflict of interest ... functioning in older people: A longitudinal analysis Psychology and Aging 2001, 16:466–482 55 Bouisson J: Routinization preferences, anxiety, and depression in an elderly French sample Journal of Aging...

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... an influenza vaccination in 2000 to 2002, and 36% in 2003 to 2005 There were 66 820 enrolees at the Elderly Health Centres between July 1998 and December 2001 After excluding 2630 living in institutions, ... deaths from injury and poisoning Conclusions Influenza vaccination may be beneficial and may protect older people from morbidity and mortality, but it is unlikely that influenza vaccination in Hong ... associations in people receiving financial assistance (CSSA) or in poor health, because these people might be more likely to have been vaccinated Admission and mortality in the high and low influenza...

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... found in the baseline pulmonary function, peripheral blood eosinophil counts and IgE production between cilostazol and placebo treatments From these findings, PDE inhibition may be useful in elderly ... palpitations, flushing and dizziness were not observed with the cilostazol treatment in patients participating in this study, since the side effects of cilostazol are less frequent in elderly patients ... concentration of inhaled methacholine causing a 20% fall in FEV1 **Bronchodilator response means percent increase in forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) from the baseline value after inhalation of...

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... cereals, legumes and other plant foods bind zinc and inhibit its absorption [41] Factors found mainly in plant foods including phosphorus, flavonoids, oxalates and soy protein can also inhibit iron ... adequate nutrient intake in each BMI category is depicted in Figure Overall, very few elderly had adequate energy and protein intake In obese and overweight categories, 100 and 84% of the elderly had ... reported for 64 and 22, and 47 and 17%, respectively Similarly, for minerals and vitamins, even lesser than 45% of the elderly in obese, overweight and underweight categories had an adequate intake of...

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... frequency in our population and that in other populations may be due to the number of patients examined, the patient sample, and the difference in the examining techniques and equipment In addition, ... agenesis was 0.49% in males and 0.24% in females (Fig 4), whereas the incidence of a left unilateral sinus absence was 0.49% in females and was not observed in males (Table 1) Yoshino et al [24] ... 2003:98-100 Dodd G, Jing B Radiology of the Nose, Paranasal Sinuses and Nasopharynx Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1977:59–65 Hollinshead W The nose and paranasal sinuses In: Hollinshead W, ed Anatomy...

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... distinguishes HIV-1 subtype B and E infection in Thai individuals and confirmed by sequencing, when indicated [19, 20] Specimens and HIV DNA Assay At entry into the cohort, PBMC were isolated and ... causes of cognitive impairment including gadolinium-enhanced brain MRI If clinically indicated, individuals underwent a lumbar puncture to exclude opportunistic brain infection, however of the eight ... mechanisms to explain the continued prevalence of HAD in the era of HAART Since HIV DNA in M/MФ persists while individuals are on HAART and since monocytes likely play a critical role in HIV-1 neuropathogenesis,...

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... proportional random selection of primary and secondary sampling units (towns and sections, respectively), with the final units (individuals) being selected by means of random routes and sex- and age-based ... 2001, 2003, and 2006 The SNHS is an ongoing, home-based personal interview examining a national representative sample of non-institutionalized population residing in main family dwellings (households) ... Spain and is mainly performed by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs and the National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional Estadística-INE) The SNHS uses a multistage cluster sampling,...

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... (1987) in a study in Nigeria, and Brown (quoted in Ekpenyong, 1987) in a study among Ghanaians In a recent study among the elderly living in urban, communal and commercial fanning areas in Zimbabwe, ... after Independeoce The continued inequalities in ownership of wealth and in incomes continued to generate huge differences in the type and extent of morbidity in different social classes in Zimbabwe ... in Zimbabwe in general, and in the elderly in institutions and homes in particular Race is no longer a deciding factor in most aspects of health status (J' access to care, but it continues, says...

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... (2003) Prefrontal cortex and episodic memory: Integrating findings from neuropscyhology and functional brain imaging In T B Amanda Parker & E Wilding (Eds.), Memory encoding and retrieval: A cognitive ... each individual fMRI Data Preprocessing and Spatial Normalization Functional imaging data were realigned in SPM99 and spatially normalized using in- house, atlas-based, high-dimensional nonlinear ... spaced control points enables locally independent warps to be constructed in small subvolumes defined by cubes having control points as vertices These result in a matching of fine anatomical details...

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... function, Inflammation and Aging), a prospective cohort of elderly women living in the highly industrialised Ruhr district and in adjacent rural areas in Germany Chronic respiratory symptoms and lung ... baseline and who agreed to further examinations in the questionnaire follow-up in 2006 The women were invited in a randomized manner from four cities in the Ruhr area (Duisburg, Dortmund, Essen and ... were not included in the final model The final models were written as follows: p =  +  * E baseline +  * S baseline and p t =  +  * E baseline + ( +  *  E) * t +  * S baseline +  *...

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... individual's lifetime and begins with parents’ and own investments in nutrition, disease-preventing interventions and practices, and in health conserving behaviors These health inputs (HI), and ... toilet and drainage facilities, those without running water, those living in overcrowded homes, individuals in localidades with less than 5,000 individuals, and the working population earning less ... participation of the elderly in 151 countries, concluding that participation rates for individuals 55 and over are much higher in developing countries, including Latin America, than in more developed...

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... reports in other populations,30,31 and with the intrahemispheric coherence findings of Koyama et al70 and of Duffy et al71 using interhemispheric coherence While Geschwind and Kaplan72 and Geschwind73 ... by summing sCSF and vCSF In parallel, a total brain connectivity measure was constructed by averaging coherence values in all bands and regions We examined bivariate statistics to determine which ... reductions in coherence in these networks In the present study, we measured coherence in the prerolandic and postrolandic regions As in our previous work,2 values were multiplied by 10 and log-transformed...

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... calcium and vitamin D contributes to alterations of bone remodeling and bone integrity Low calcium intake and vitamin D deficiency have been repeatedly observed in the elderly population In elderly ... frequent, regular, and sustained manner The exercise should be weight bearing and easy to complete and should fit into their daily routine A program of walking, sitting, and standing exercises, or water ... their social roles Inability to fulfill the roles such as cooking, housekeeping, working, and sexual intimacy can be devastating, leading to frustration and embarrassment [37] Interpersonal relationships...

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... visit, in making a medical appointment because of existing lines, and in obtaining medicines because of financial problems or any other problem (Table 4) ple, in China and India, higher income ... gathered, standardizing procedures and instruments, training of field-work and labo- ratory teams, and adjusting for several confounding variables Internal validity was assured because the elderly ... (self-rated health in the preceding months, being unable to perform routine activities because of a health problem in the preceding weeks, and staying in bed in the preceding weeks because of...

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... positive sputum AFB smear was obtained in 57.1% of elderly and in 57.5 % of young TB patients, and a positive AFB culture was obtained in 70.6% of the elderly and in 74.4% of the young, neither ... significantly higher in the elderly (p

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... and thus the wellbeing of individuals 26 The process of ageing is always accompanied by a decline in the wellbeing of the human beings that results in the rising economic, health and social insecurity ... the elderly living without next relatives within the house and this could be due to the high incidence of migration Increasing incidence of migration, internal and international, lead to the elderly ... of economic, health and social aspects of deprivation among the elderly in India Old age deprivation in India The elderly in India often end up in a state of deprivation and negligence as there...

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... HRQoL than the singles, divorced, widows and widowers Since one of the potential health threatening risk factors in the elderly is loneliness, providing them with support and empowering them to face ... nationality elderly aged 60 years and above of both genders among two groups (i) residents in an exclusive nursing home in this area and (ii) elderly residents at homes From the 75 residents in nursing ... generalized to entire elderly population in Iran To explain such findings one might argue that the most (62.30%) elderly participated in this study were without pensions and often their income does not...

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... fibres and irreversible neurological damage such as burning and tingling of the hands and feet (parasthesia), dementia, glossitis and chelosis Low vitamin B12 is also an independent risk factor in ... more common for institutionalised elderly than independently living elderly – with more than 50% of people living in hospitals or nursing homes affected.15 Obtaining adequate vitamin D can be a ... common complaint in elderly patients resulting from a combination of polypharmacy, low fibre diets and limited fluids Cognitive decline and self neglect of isolated older people increases susceptibility...

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... in helping to develop policies that support caregivers in their care management, including finding and using information and assistive services However, the literature is inadequate in explaining ... in helping to develop policies that support caregivers in their care management, including finding and using information and assistive services However, the literature is inadequate in explaining ... Pierre, and Hilliard of shared symbols, beliefs, and customs that shape individual and group behavior and provide guidelines for speaking, doing, interpreting, and evaluating one’s actions and reactions...

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