Osteoarthritis-related knee pain: MRI-guided focused ultrasound ablation treatment by Christin A. Tiegs-Heiden, Zaiyang Long, Aiming Lu, Krzysztof R. Gorny, Gina K. Hesley

“…Objective: Osteoarthritis of the knee is a common cause of pain, functional disability, and reduced quality of life in the elderly. Despite its prevalence, there are limited currently available noninvasive treatment options. …”
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Determinants of COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate in the United States: Spatial Analysis Over One Year of the Pandemic by Niranjan J. Kathe, Rajvi J. Wani

“…**Conclusion:** The spatial models identified percent positive for COVID-19, stringency index, elderly, college education, race/ethnicity, residential segregation, premature mortality, income inequality, workforce composition, and rurality as important ecological determinants of the geographic disparities in COVID-19 CFR.…”
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Burden of diet-related chronic diseases in Chinese and Japanese adults attributable to dietary risk factors from 1990 to 2021: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease... by Minyan Wang, Huan Ma, Chu Qin, Oscar Onayi Mandizadza, Haojie Ni, Yun Shi, Conghua Ji

“…In addition, attention should be given to the dietary status of the elderly, along with targeted health education initiatives.…”
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Association of physical activity with sleep health: A systematic review by Andrea Wendt, Thaynã Ramos Flores, Inácio Crochemore Mohnsam Silva, Fernando César Wehrmeister

“…Physical activity seems to be associated with sleep quality and insomnia, especially among adult and elderly populations in which these outcomes are more usually measured. …”
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Molecular Diversity of Sapovirus Infection in Outpatients Living in Nanjing, China (2011–2013) by Hong-ying Zhang, Meng-kai Qiao, Xuan Wang, Min He, Li-min Shi, Guo-xiang Xie, Hei-ying Jin

“…The majority was children and the elderly (15, 93.75%) and single infections (15, 93.75%). …”
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Safety Evaluation of the Novel Cocktail of Monoclonal Antibodies for Postexposure Prophylaxis in Category III Animal Exposures by Ravish Haradanahalli Shankaraiah, N. R. Ramesh Masthi, M. K. Poornima, Vinitha Kiruffi, S. Sowmyashree, Trayambak Dutta, Manish Mahajan, Samir Desai

“…Results: The present study included 309 subjects across all age groups, 59.2% were adults, 33.3% of children, and 7.5% elderly. Majority of the patients were exposed to dogs (89.6%) and most of them had lacerations (86.3%) in different parts of their body. …”
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Atypical Proliferating Trichilemmal Cyst with Malignant Breast Skin Transformation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Marino Antonio Capurso-García, Verónica Bautista-Piña, Alan Pomerantz, Javier Andrés Galnares-Olalde, Ruben Blachman-Braun, Sergio Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Monica Goldberg-Murow

“…These tumors are most commonly observed on the scalp and occur, most of the time, in elderly women. Malignant transformation of these neoplasms is a rare event; less than 50 cases have been reported in the English medical literature. …”
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Investigating the Therapeutic Mechanisms of Total Saikosaponins in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Metabolomic and Proteomic Approach by Huiling Wei, Tianyi Du, Weiwei Zhang, Wei Ma, Yao Yao, Juan Li

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia among the elderly, yet effective treatments remain elusive. …”
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Effects of Strength Training on Muscle Properties, Physical Function, and Physical Activity among Frail Older People: A Pilot Study by Atle Hole Saeterbakken, Hilde Bremseth Bårdstu, Anine Brudeseth, Vidar Andersen

“…The aim of this study was to determine the effects of a 10-week strength training intervention on isometric strength, rate of force development (RFD), physical function (stair climbing, rising from a chair, and preferred and maximal walking speed), and physical activity among frail elderly people receiving home-care services. Thirty participants were randomly assigned (by sex) to a control group (CON) or a strength training group (ST) performing a supervised training programme using elastic bands, box-lifting, and body weight exercises twice per week. …”
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Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis and Screening in Australian General Practice: A National Study by Mingyue Zheng, Carla De Oliveira Bernardo, Nigel Stocks, David Gonzalez-Chica

“…Diabetes screening (last three years) among people at high risk of diabetes was 55.2% (95% CI 52.7, 57.7), with lower rates among young or elderly males. Conclusions. Unrecorded diabetes/prediabetes is infrequent in Australian general practice, but prediabetes diagnosis was also lower than expected. …”
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Socioeconomic Inequity in Access to Medical and Long-Term Care Among Older People by Shohei Okamoto, Atsuhiro Yamada, Erika Kobayashi, Jersey Liang

“…Methods We used data from five waves of the National Survey of the Japanese Elderly, conducted between 2002 and 2021, to assess gradients in access to medical care and LTC by income and education among Japanese individuals aged 60 years and above. …”
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Alone or in combination, hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate alleviate ECM degradation in osteoarthritis by inhibiting the NF-κB pathway by Yiran Ma, Xin Yang, Min Jiang, Wangjuan Ye, Hong Qin, Songwen Tan

“…Abstract Backgrounds Osteoarthritis (OA) significantly impacts the elderly, leading to disability and decreased quality of life. …”
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Ultrasound-Guided Genicular Nerve Thermal Radiofrequency Ablation for Chronic Knee Pain by Joshua Wong, Nicholas Bremer, Paul D. Weyker, Christopher A. J. Webb

“…Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is one of the most common joint diseases affecting adults in the United States. For elderly patients with multiple medical comorbidities who do not wish to undergo total knee arthroplasty (TKA), lifestyle modification, pharmacologic management, and injections are the mainstay of therapy. …”
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The Heart of the Matter: Health Status of Aged Care Clients Receiving Home- and Community-Based Care by Deborah Yarmo-Roberts, Rosanne Laura Freak-Poli, Brad Cooper, Tim Noonan, Just Stolewinder, Christopher M. Reid

“…To determine the current health status of home based elderly clients receiving government funded aged care packages. …”
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Effect of Posture Training with Weighted Kypho-Orthosis (WKO) on Improving Balance in Women with Osteoporosis by Seyed Ahmad Raeissadat, Leyla Sedighipour, Safura Pournajaf, Reza Vahab Kashani, Shahram Sadeghi

“…Posture training support (PTS) applied as WKO together with back extension exercises can be prescribed as an intervention in elderly women in order to reduce the risk of falling.…”
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Health economics assessment of statin therapy initiation thresholds for atherosclerosis prevention in China: a cost-effectiveness analysis by Tianyu Feng, Xiaolin Zhang, Jiaying Xu, Shang Gao, Xihe Yu

“…The model utilized the China-PAR prediction tool for ASCVD risk and incorporated data from a nationally representative survey and published meta-analyses of middle-aged and elderly Chinese populations. Four strategies were evaluated: a 7.5% 10-year risk threshold, the current guideline strategy, and a 15% threshold. …”
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Age-related changes in the vestibulothalamic pathway: Association with balance ability and subjective visual vertical of vestibular function by Sang Seok Yeo, Seo Yoon Park, In Hee Cho

“…Therefore, this study analyzed ipsilateral VTT to compare the neural pathway and the differences in vestibular and balance functions according to aging. Methods: Eleven elderly and 12 young healthy adults were recruited. …”
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Is COVID-19 an Advantage to Disadvantaged Groups? Evidence from Administrative Data on Working Hours in Turkey by Sibel Selim, Şenay Üçdoğruk Birecikli, Gökhan Özkubat

“…In addition, it is predicted that as the stringency of the restrictions increases by 10 points, working-hour gaps between the genders will be lessened by about 0.1 hours. The elderly, university graduates and those working in small businesses are the groups most affected by the pandemic. …”
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Primary Systemic Al Amyloidosis Presenting as Temporal Arteritis by Hakan Emmungil, Melike Kalfa, Burcu Başarık, Hasip Kahraman, Ferhat Tanhan, Banu Yaman, Atiye Öztürk, Zehra Erdemir, Gülşen Kandiloğlu, Vedat İnal, Yasemin Kabasakal

“…Temporal arteritis is most common vasculitis in elderly and imitated by miscellaneous disorders. Temporal artery biopsy is the gold standard test in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). …”
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Factors Influencing Survival Status of HIV/AIDS after HAART in Huzhou City, Eastern China by Meihua Jin, Zhongrong Yang, Jing Li, Xiaoqi Liu, Zhenqian Wu

“…The results indicated that respondents who were elderly (HR = 1.053, 95% CI: 1.037–1.069, P<0.01), who had heterosexual transmission (HR = 2.422, 95% CI: 1.314–4.465, P<0.01) and whose current WHO clinical stage was stage III or IV (HR = 2.399, 95% CI: 1.215–4.735, P<0.05) were more likely to have died; respondents whose baseline CD4+ T-lymphocyte count was equal to or more than 200 cells/μL (HR = 0.412, 95% CI: 0.275–0.616, P<0.05) were unlikely to have died. …”
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