Effects of oral sarcopenia and malnutrition on the elderly by Chieh Chen, Da-Ming Liao

“…Older adults who are picky eaters are 2.5 times more prone to develop weakness in the future than average individuals, as well as a significant increase in disability risk by 40%. Anorexia nervosa, which refers to a decline in appetite or food intake, is common in this population because of the degradation of chewing and swallowing functions. …”
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Case Report: A case of Tatton-Brown–Rahman syndrome featuring mitral annular disjunction and mitral valve prolapse due to a novel mutation site in the DNMT3A gene by Zhong-jiao Xu, Ru-ming Shen, Wu-ming Hu, Lin-chun Lv, Zhen-hua Shi, Li Lin

“…A 13-year-old child presented with specific facial features, overgrowth, and intellectual disability. Echocardiography revealed the presence of a large pericardial effusion, left ventricular enlargement, mitral annular separation, and mitral valve prolapse with moderate regurgitation. …”
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Autologous Cord Blood Therapy for Infantile Cerebral Palsy: From Bench to Bedside by A. Jensen

“…About 17 million people worldwide live with cerebral palsy, the most common disability in childhood, with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, preterm birth, and low birth weight being the most important risk factors. …”
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Abatacept in the Treatment of Juvenile Dermatomyositis-Associated Calcifications in a 16-Year-Old Girl by Sukesh Sukumaran, Vini Vijayan

“…It is associated with negative impact on the patients’ quality of life due to weakness, functional disability, joint contractures, muscle atrophy, skin ulcers, and secondary infections. …”
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Pain Management in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis by T Jock Murray

“…Although MS can cause pain, increasing disability can also produce other complications that are painful such as pressure palsies, decubiti, the effects of poorly fitting wheelchairs, or the musculoskeletal pain that results from the effort to maintain head position and posture with weakened muscles. …”
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The Cognitive and Behavioural Profile of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Application of the Consensus Criteria by Monica Consonni, Sandro Iannaccone, Chiara Cerami, Paola Frasson, Marco Lacerenza, Christian Lunetta, Massimo Corbo, Stefano F. Cappa

“…The study also intends to assess the impact of physical disability on cognitive and behavioural abnormalities.…”
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Urinary Incontinence in Men with Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study by İsmail Uysal, Özgür Nadiye Doğrukök, Yalcin Golcuk, Fatih Özden, Mehmet Özkeskin, Miray Başer, Bircan Yücekaya, Zeynep Nisa Karakoyun

“…The individuals’ degree of disability was evaluated using the Modified Rankin Scale (MRS) and Barthel Index (BI). …”
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Intervertebral Disc Degeneration in Long-Term Postoperative Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: MRI Evaluation 34-51 Years after Surgery and its Changes during Middle an... by Tsutomu Akazawa, Toshiaki Kotani, Tsuyoshi Sakuma, Yasushi Iijima, Yoshiaki Torii, Jun Ueno, Atsuhiro Yoshida, Ken Tomochika, Sumihisa Orita, Yawara Eguchi, Kazuhide Inage, Yasuhiro Shiga, Junichi Nakamura, Yusuke Matsuura, Takane Suzuki, Hisateru Niki, Seiji Ohtori, Shohei Minami

“…Scores in the Scoliosis Research Society-22 Questionnaire pain, Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire, and Oswestry Disability Index were significantly worse in the latest survey than in the previous one. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. International standards of occupations (HISCO) and diseases (ICD-10) have been applied, facilitating comparability. …”
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Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Melatonin in Secondary Traumatic Brain Injury by Mariusz Sieminski, Michalina Reimus, Maria Kałas, Ewelina Stępniewska

“…As TBI is a significant cause of mortality and chronic disability, with high social costs all over the world, any form of therapy that may mitigate trauma-evoked brain damage is desirable. …”
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Hypertensive Response to Exercise as an Early Marker of Disease Development by Wojciech Kosowski, Krzysztof Aleksandrowicz

“…Arterial hypertension is one of the world’s leading risk factors for death and disability. With the number of people living with this disease doubling between 1990 and 2019 from 650 million to 1.3 billion, it is a global burden that increases mortality from cardiovascular and kidney diseases. …”
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A Rare Sequela of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis by Vijay Kodadhala, Saravana Devulapalli, Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Annapurni Jayam-Trouth

“…Our case is unique, as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis occurred in a 34-year-old which was poorly responsive to immunosuppression resulting in severe disability.…”
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Exploring the Safety and Effects of COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients with Autoimmune Disease by Kirttna Solai Vairavan, Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Jodi Woan Fei Law, Priyia Pusparajah, Vengadesh Letchumanan

“…It can spread rapidly and has caused the death and disability of many worldwide. Vaccines are our most effective line of defense against the rapidly spreading and mutating virion. …”
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Evaluation of the deleted in malignant brain tumor 1 protein expression and DNA methylation profile in rheumatoid arthritis patients by Khushboo Choudhury, Monika Gandhi, Uma Kumar, Sayan Chatterjee, Ram Singh Purty

“…Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, autoimmune disease that progressively leads to joint destruction and functional disability which eventually affects the quality of life of the people suffering from it. …”
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A Unique Source for Innovative Longitudinal Research: The POPLINK Database by Annika Westberg, Elisabeth Engberg, Sören Edvinsson

“…POPLINK allows for a large array of longitudinal studies, such as social mobility, migration, fertility, mortality, civil status, kinship relations, diseases, disability and causes of death. International standards of occupations (HISCO) and diseases (ICD-10) have been applied, facilitating comparability. …”
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Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…Before she lost her hearing as a young adolescent, she enjoyed singing and ‘was never out of tune’: it was only after she became fully aware of her disability that she urged her ‘fellow sufferers’ to trust even experimental science to gain ‘every breath of sound’ and play an active role in the public sphere. …”
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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Osteoarthritis Severity Levels by Siti Juhro, Much Nurkharistna Al Jihad, Machmudah Machmudah, Dera Alfiyanti

“…Globally, approximately 151.4 million people suffer from OA, including 27.4 million in Southeast Asia, making it a leading cause of disability among adults. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a significant risk factor influencing the development and severity of OA. …”
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Brief Pain Inventory and McGill Pain Questionnaire in Assessing the Patients with Temporomandibular Joint Disorders – A Cross-Sectional Study by Keerthana Selvam, J Anand Kumar, Suman J. Lakshmi, Senthil Kumar Balasubramanian

“…Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are the second most prevalent musculoskeletal affliction, causing pain and disability, underscoring their impact on well-being. …”
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Colliding public health priorities: A call to improve the understanding of autistic individuals utilizing housing assistance. by Lindsay Shea, Anne Roux, Amy Blank Wilson, Jonas Ventimiglia, Conner Carlton, Wei-Lin Lee, Dylan Cooper, Shelby Frisbie

“…Integrated public health, housing, and disability supports must address equitable income supports and housing assistance needed to support the health needs of autistic individuals.…”
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Assessing Children's Anxiety Using the Modified Short State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Talking Mats: A Pilot Study by Stefan Nilsson, Margret Buchholz, Gunilla Thunberg

“…Children, with or without disability, are helped when pictures are used to support communication. …”
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