the current era increased utilization of hct in older adults

... designed the project, obtained funding, assisted with the interpretation of the results and contributed to the writing and editing of multiple drafts CAM was involved in the design, assisted in the interpretation ... reduced pain, and greater emotional wellbeing (i.e., happiness) The clinical relevance of the mediating role of physical activity can be inferred by comparing the magnitude of the indirect effect ... Classification of chronic conditions in the sample of older adults Classification of chronic conditions in the sample of older adults Notes:N = 24,281 The following selected chronic conditions were included:...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... database containing the names of older adults interested in clinical trials research, and advertisements placed in the local newspaper We were primarily interested in targeting older adults with ... of the present study was to compare the influence of different types of resistance training and a control on changes in measures of quality of life and selfefficacy in older adults The data indicate ... However, despite the well documented benefits of strength training on physical function, evidence examining the influence of ST on quality of life or quality of life in older adults is equivocal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... psychological well-being [1] Maintaining a high level of quality of life into advanced age is a growing public health concern as the older adult population continues to increase In fact, one of the primary ... addition to these findings, the present study emphasizes the need to more clearly define the independent role that hypertension and gender have on HRQL The main limitation of this study is the utilization ... the HRQL measures in the physical health domain remained higher in the more physically active group except for the measure of general health This suggests that the HRQL domains of physical function,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... with the long tradition of social research on general well-being, dating back to the 1950s [1] The current, international policy focus on promotion of well-being has stimulated interest in quality ... summing of the above plus number of different social activities engaged in during past month (3+), as an index of social engagement Page of 10 • Social functioning: Comprised summing of number of ... associations in the literature between socio-demographic variables and indicators of well-being, including quality of life, and these were included last (to control for their effects) [1] A hierarchical...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... heterogeneous They included frail older adults living in senior housing facilities [1,7,8,11,13] as well as healthy communitydwelling older adults [6,8,11,13–15] or inpatients Ó 2009 The Author(s) ... community-dwelling older adults, differences in health status) and lack of consensus concerning dual-task paradigms From a methodological point of view, no information about the number of subjects ... overÕ combined with the terms Ôdual taskÕ, Ôdual taskingÕ, ÔgaitÕ, ÔwalkingÕ, ÔfallÕ and ÔfallingÕ was performed The search also included the Cochrane library and the references lists of the retrieved...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 23:16

... decline Cancer is a disease of aging The rising incidence of cancer, coupled with the aging of the population will result in an anticipated 67% increase in the incidence of cancer in older adults ... ongoing in older adults with cancer; in a prospective cohort of older adults receiving chemotherapy, one in five of older adults developed new dependence in their activities of daily living between ... general population of older adults, with a 16–17% increased risk of falls With the aging of the population and the increasing number of cancer survivors, we can anticipate growing numbers of older...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 23:18

... expressed in the white matter of the normal spinal cord in our previous study [13] and in the present study In rats having spinal cord infiltrates of inflammatory cells during EAN, intense CD44 ... spinal roots These two molecules may be involved in cell migration into the spinal cord in the early stages of EAN Further study of the functional role of OPN will be required to determine whether ... rarely infiltrated the spinal cord parenchyma OPN was expressed in some macrophages in the subarachnoid space and in some astrocytes in the parenchyma, mainly near the pia mater These findings...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... Burden of Cancer in American Adults Having a history of cancer does not necessarily result in current avoidance of smoking, however The overall prevalence of current smoking is similar among adults ... that of women 65 and older; however, the incidence of breast cancer in middle-aged women is almost as great as the incidence of lung and colorectal cancer in older women The Burden of Cancer in ... the second leading cause of death in the United States; however, progress is being made Overall, the death rate from cancer is on the decline, and is decreasing for the four most incident cancers...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... had stressed the importance of the common good, the corruption of kings, the authority of the senate, the balance of the constitution, and the sovereignty of the people.42 This set the tone for ... “republic with a king at the head of it”.112 The French introduced most of the elements of the republican form of government into their constitution in 1791, but maintained their constitutional ... themselves against others in pursuing justice and the good life; and finally, a technique for obtaining the cooperation of others in building justice and their own good lives.15 These goods are common...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... harbouring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, or of a position of vulnerability or of the ... take into account, in applying the provisions of this article, the age, gender and special needs of victims of trafficking in persons, in particular, the special needs of children, including appropriate ... interviewer In the process of gathering information there is the danger that the safety and individual needs of victims may not be adequately addressed Having a sound understanding of the risks,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... simulation of DK9 thrombin in explicit water solvent supports the role of the A-chain in affecting the conformation and catalytic properties of the B-chain, particularly in some insertion loops of the ... flexibility of their side-chains to the solvent the smaller the intrinsic fluorescence of the enzyme The smaller gain in the intrinsic fluorescence of DK9 upon Na+ concentration (9 vs 18% in WT) may ... B-chains In WT thrombin, the A-chain assumes an overall boomerang-like shape interacting with the B-chain surface opposite to the active site [17] Stabilization within the A-chain and between the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... form Initially, determination of the amino-terminal amino acid sequence of purified protein was attempted, but no information was obtained, probably due to the protein modification Therefore, the ... because of the attachment of the hexahistidine, the recombinant PpTGase protein appeared to be slightly larger These results indicate that the cDNA obtained covered the entire coding region Involvement ... terminus that is required for binding to the plasma membrane, thereby being involved in the formation of the corneum [47] Additional amino-terminal residues of TGase include the sequences that are post-translationally...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... cent of women in British Columbia aged 15 years or older reportedly having a drink in 2007/2008 Particularly troublesome are data indicating the increase in heavy drinking and binge drinking by ... location The built environment is a key focus because of the ability of urban design to affect the quality of the air we breathe and the amount of physical activity we engage in The impact of the ... by the Office of the Provincial Health Officer and Business Operations and Surveillance, Ministry of Health Services, 2010 Health Authority (18 per cent of the region’s population) and the Interior...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... balance The Institute of Medicine was chartered in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to enlist distinguished members of the appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining ... an increase in the South in the early 1990s Changes in the regional demographics of drug use can also lead to changes in the distribution of HIV infection in pregnant women Given the uncertainty ... through the use of zidovudine (ZDV) by the mother during pregnancy and labor and in the newborn—represented one of the most important successes in the fight against AIDS These findings led government...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... Trends in cinema building design In 2001, Box Office magazine surveyed the leading cinema architects in the USA for their views of how cinema design might evolve over the next decade The dominant ... to find that in a survey of over 800 independent exhibitors in the UK 39 the principal training requirement requested by almost 2/3rds of cinemas responding was for computer training (including ... Wales during July, August and September 2003 In line with the brief, at least 50% of the cinemas in the Interreg IIIA zones and at least 33% of the remaining cinemas were visited by the consultants...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... within the scope of the guideline Details are therefore given of the remaining 58 studies Settings Of the 58 studies, 47 reported the effect of interventions in participants living in the community ... use of padding worn around the hip has been advocated as a measure of reducing the impact of the fall and thereby the chance of fracturing the hip The fracture is usually the result of a fall The ... was generated based on the findings of the studies 5.8.8 Details of studies included in the review Sifting results The numbers of studies obtained are detailed in Table 12 Table 12: Results of search/sift...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... relationships of a type II¢stabilized analogue of would offer direct information about the role of the topographical features of the side chains of the residues in region 17–21 for receptor binding and in ... binding data showed that (a) the introduction of the Asp17,Lys21-lactam bridge in hCt resulted in a significant increase in human Ct receptor binding affinity (b) residues 18 and 19 of hCt and their ... lost the high receptor binding affinity of and were similarity potent to hCt, whereas they maintained the increased in vivo hypocalcemic potency of Similarly, and had reduced binding affinity to the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:21

... dissolved into oblivion, succeeding generations have speculated endlessly about the purpose of the monument and the identity of its builders In his History of the Kings of Britain of 1135, Geoffrey of ... were often chosen for the monuments, they marked the upper margins of the farming territory, the wilderness edge There was a flurry of activity in the Midlands too Far from remaining a huge and intractable ... Meanwhile in the marginal lands there was something of a regression to nearmesolithic life styles At Skara Brae people depended increasingly on the older practices of hunting, fishing and fowling In the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 02:00

... they were all punished; he mentions Lycurgus, Pentheus the King of Thebes (in Greece), and also Myrrhanus the King of the Indians The story of Lycurgus is in fact very similar to that of Pentheus ... thing happens in the case of the [drink made] of barley, the so-called pinon Under the influence of all other intoxicants, those who become intoxicated fall in all directions, sometimes to the ... originally dealt with the various aspects of the Athenian symposium (or drinking party), including the use of garlands, the types of food served, and especially drinking Aristotle accepted the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 11:30