Barriers to leisure-time physical activity in adults living in a low socioeconomic area of the Brazilian Southeast by Michele Santos Cruz, Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia, Douglas Roque Andrade, Alex Antonio Florindo

“…Health problems were related by people with hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, elderly, with low education and who did not have labor activities. …”
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Practice of total quality management model in the "One Syndrome and One Product" specialized nursing demonstration wards (全面质量管理模式在“一证一品”专科护理示范病房管理中的实践)... by LI Jing (李静), LI Yueru (李月茹), CAO Hongjing (曹红京), LI Ning (李宁), TIAN Zhijun (田志军)

“…Hospital has launched the construction project of the "One Syndrome and One Product" specialized nursing demonstration wards and established a service band of Traditional Chinese Medicine nursing focusing on elderly care. The total quality management model has been built and put into practice, in order to improve the quality of specialized nursing and enhance the comprehensive ability of nurses. …”
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Clinical and microbiological characterization of patients with pneumonia associated with mechanical ventilation, Cienfuegos 2015-2017 by Roberto Carlos Barletta Farías, Leonardo Javier Pérez Ponce, Jorge Emilio Barletta del Castillo, Marcos Antonio González Guirola, Rolando Laín Sánchez Castellanos, Misael Pujol Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Conclusion</strong>: the disease appeared mainly in elderly male patients. In correspondence with previous studies in the province, Acinetobacter baumannii was manifested as the most frequent causative agent, with high resistance in vitro. …”
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Immunogenicity of RSV F DNA Vaccine in BALB/c Mice by Erdal Eroglu, Ankur Singh, Swapnil Bawage, Pooja M. Tiwari, Komal Vig, Shreekumar R. Pillai, Vida A. Dennis, Shree R. Singh

“…Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes severe acute lower respiratory tract disease leading to numerous hospitalizations and deaths among the infant and elderly populations worldwide. There is no vaccine or a less effective drug available against RSV infections. …”
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Impact of prosthetic rehabilitation on the life quality related to oral health in older adults by Zuilen Jiménez Quintana, Ileana Bárbara Grau León, Rafael Maresma Frómeta, Milay Justo Díaz, Emilio Terry Pérez

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: in the elderly rehabilitated with total prostheses, the female sex represented the 60% and the 77% requested attention due to aesthetic and functional concerns. …”
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Polymers for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease by Yunfeng Zhu, Haibin Xu, Chaoyan Yu, Wenting Jiang, Xiaowen Hou, Mingyue Ma, Ji Wu

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system in the middle-aged and elderly population. It is a neurodegenerative disorder, and its main clinical symptoms include the loss of established memories, a decline in learning capacity, and the buildup of β-amyloid peptides. …”
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Mechanistic insights toward progress in alogliptin beyond glycemic control: translational perspective by Faraha Ahmed, Syed Sufian Ahmad, M. Mumtaz Alam, M. Shaqiquzzaman, Abul Kalam Najmi, Mohammad Ahmed Khan

“…It has a good safety profile, well-tolerated in elderly patients and in patients with co-morbid conditions including risks of cardiovascular event, renal or hepatic insufficiency. …”
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Symptoms affecting patient’s intake of food with lymphoma in outpatient chemotherapy by Andressa Madalozo Laffitte, Carolina Lane Alves Farias, Jessica Wszolek

“…In the BMI, 26.7% of adults were eutrophic, 30% were overweight, 13.3% were obese and none with malnutrition, in relation to the elderly 6.7% were underweight, 6.7% were eutrophic and 16.7 % overweight. …”
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Social justice and inequality in the mirror of public opinion: Dynamics and specifics by N. D. Kolennikova

“…The first demand is more typical for the most materially disadvantaged groups and the elderly, the second - for economically active groups and the youth. …”
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Prevention of Foodborne Listeriosis by JM Farber, J Harwig, A Carter

“…In most cases, individuals who come down with listeriosis include the immunocompromised, the elderly (older than 65 years) and pregnant women and their fetuses. …”
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Examining the Impacts of House Prices on Self-Rated Health of Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Subjective Well-Being by Min Wang, Zixuan Tan, Ruying Chen, Xuefang Zhuang

“…Consequently, to improve older adults’ well-being and self-rated health, effective healthy-aging policies should not only consider the influence of the real estate market, but also balance the allocation of elderly service facilities, promote affordable housing, and implement a combination of medical and nursing care from the perspective of urban planning.…”
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Spontaneous Intraperitoneal Rupture of Bladder Diverticulum: A Rare Cause of Peritonitis by Ahmed Ibrahimi, Adil Kallat, Idriss Ziani, Hachem El Sayegh, Lounis Benslimane, Yassine Nouini

“…Etiologies are dominated by bladder outlet obstruction, represented mainly by benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) in elderly men. Clinical presentation is nonspecific, leading to delayed diagnosis and treatment. …”
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Neuroinflammation as Fuel for Axonal Regeneration in the Injured Vertebrate Central Nervous System by Ilse Bollaerts, Jessie Van houcke, Lien Andries, Lies De Groef, Lieve Moons

“…Damage to the central nervous system (CNS) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in elderly, as repair after lesions or neurodegenerative disease usually fails because of the limited capacity of CNS regeneration. …”
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Stability of Watch-Based Blood Pressure Measurements Analyzed by Pre-Post Calibration Differences by Youngro Lee, Jongae Park, Sungjoon Park, Jongmo Seo, Hae-Young Lee

“…Guideline adherence is vital, particularly for the elderly, females, and individuals with hypertension. …”
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Influence of immune cells and inflammatory factors on Alzheimer’s disease axis: evidence from mediation Mendelian randomization study by Linzhu, Jianxin Zhang, Wenhui Fan, Chen Su, Zhi Jin

“…Abstract Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most common forms of dementia in the elderly, characterized by progressive neurodegeneration. …”
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Assessment of Polypharmacy, Drug Use Patterns, and Associated Factors at the Edna Adan University Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland by Temesgen Sidamo, Alemu Deboch, Mohamed Abdi, Fikru Debebe, Khalid Dayib, Tamrat Balcha Balla

“…Polypharmacy is the use of multiple drugs by a patient at the same time and is common in the elderly. To our knowledge, drug use patterns in Somaliland are rarely studied. …”
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Malignant Hyperthermia during Thoracoscopic Pulmorrhaphy in a 70-Year-Old Man by Michihiro Sakai, Noriko Murakami, Yuji Kitamura, Shin Sato, Hiroshi Iwama, Akira Nomura

“…Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a rare but potentially fatal complication that may develop under general anesthesia (GA) and is rarely reported in elderly patients. We encountered a case of mild-onset MH in a 70-year-old patient who was receiving an elective thoracoscopic pulmorrhaphy and had a history of several GA procedures. …”
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Folie à Deux in the Setting of COVID-19 Quarantine by Maxsaya Baez Nuñez, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Matthew DeLuca, Krishan Chirimunj, Monica Dhingra

“…We relay the case of a middle-aged male and his mother, an elderly female, who presented with folie à deux in the context of shared delusions of persecution and somatization during the COVID-19 quarantine period. …”
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Age group classification based on optical measurement of brain pulsation using machine learning by Martti Ilvesmäki, Hany Ferdinando, Kai Noponen, Tapio Seppänen, Vesa Korhonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Teemu Myllylä

“…The subjects, measured during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at Oulu University Hospital, were divided into young (age ≤ 32) and elderly (age ≥ 57) groups. Brain pulses were extracted from fNIRS using a single 830 nm wavelength. …”
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Prevalence and demographic distribution of anaemia among those visiting a teaching hospital located in tribal predominant block of Jharkhand: Retrospective record based analysis by Vasanth Chellamuthu, Srinivasan Chelladurai, Vinayagamoorthy Venogopal, Bhagyasri Ray, S Sharanabasappa, Vasantha C. Kalyani, Satya Patra

“…Conclusion: This study shows that half of the patients attending hospital are anaemic and the burden increases as the age increases and highest among elderly >60 years. The results of our secondary data analysis should contribute to better screening and identifying the cases among people attending the hospital and also could aid planning services at the primary care level.…”
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