Short-term effects of combined environmental factors on respiratory disease mortality in Qingdao city: A time-series investigation. by Xin Zhang, Zijian Xi, Min Yang, Xiuqin Zhang, Ruikai Wu, Shuang Li, Lu Pan, Yuan Fang, Peng Lv, Yan Ma, Haiping Duan, Bingling Wang, Kunzheng Lv

“…Furthermore, our findings indicate that females, the elderly population, and warm seasons exhibit heightened sensitivity to PM exposure.…”
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Perioperative outcomes in an age-adapted analysis of the German StuDoQ|Pancreas registry for PDAC by Tengis Tschaidse, Felix O. Hofmann, Bernhard Renz, Maximilian Hungbauer, Carsten Klinger, Heinz J. Buhr, Waldemar Uhl, Sören Torge Mees, Tobias Keck, Christoph Reissfelder, Michael Ghadimi, Jan G. D’Haese, Jens Werner, Matthias Ilmer

“…Pancreatic surgery-specific complications, such as POPF, DGE or PPH do not occur more frequently in the elderly. Overall, the risk of major complications and mortality increases in elderly patients mainly secondary to higher FTR rates.…”
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The Relationship between Body Mass Index and Incident Diabetes Mellitus in Chinese Aged Population: A Cohort Study by M. L. Tang, Y. Q. Zhou, A. Q. Song, J. L. Wang, Y. P. Wan, R. Y. Xu

“…We aimed to evaluate the value of BMI for the prediction of incident diabetes mellitus (DM) in the Chinese elderly population. Methods. A total number of 6,911 Chinese elderly people (4,110 men and 2,801 women, aged 71±6.0 years) were included in this cohort study. …”
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Research and Application Progress of Dual-energy CT in Prostate Lesions by Yize LI, Ziqi CHEN, Luyao ZHANG, Yingmin CHEN

“…Prostate lesions are common in middle-aged and elderly men. Dual-energy CT (DECT) can capture projection data at high and low X-ray energies in a single scan, significantly enhancing its ability to differentiate substances compared with traditional CT. …”
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Technical Approach to Laparoscopic Examination of the Small Bowel in Gallstone Ileus by Sarah Assali, John Mourany, Brendan Jones, Lauren Dudas, Nova Szoka

“…Gallstone ileus is an infrequent cause of small bowel obstructions (SBO), accounting for only 0.1-5% of SBOs and 25% of nonstrangulating causes of SBO in the elderly population. There is scant literature available regarding the use of laparoscopy to treat gallstone ileus. …”
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How the BRAF V600E Mutation Defines a Distinct Subgroup of Colorectal Cancer: Molecular and Clinical Implications by Catherine E. Bond, Vicki L. J. Whitehall

“…This is an early event in serrated pathway tumourigenesis, and the BRAF V600E has been commonly associated with the CpG island methylator phenotype, microsatellite instability (MSI), and a consistent clinical presentation including a proximal location and predilection for elderly females. A proportion of the BRAF mutant lesions remain as microsatellite stable (MSS), and in contrast to the MSI cancers, they have an aggressive phenotype and correlate with poor patient outcomes. …”
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Design Analysis and Experiment of Lower Limb Power Exoskeleton by Wei Ning, Gang Li, Zhendong Song, Wei Chen, Tong Wu

“…Abstract In order to effectively solve the motor dysfunction of lower limbs in the elderly caused by the degeneration of lower limb muscle function and stroke hemiplegia， the importance of rehabilitation exercise for the recovery of lower extremity dysfunction patients is analyzed from the perspective of rehabilitation medicine. …”
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Motion – Helicobacter pylori Causes or Worsens GERD: Arguments against the Motion by Kenneth EL McColl

“…Although the relationship between H pylori and gastric physiology is complex, the organism has little effect on acid secretion in most North American or Western European subjects, and has a net suppressive effect, especially in elderly subjects, in other parts of the world. Thus, the organism has a potential protective effect against GERD, which is exacerbated by gastric acidity. …”
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Feature Selection and Machine Learning Approaches for Detecting Sarcopenia Through Predictive Modeling by Akhrorbek Tukhtaev, Dilmurod Turimov, Jiyoun Kim, Wooseong Kim

“…This condition poses significant health risks for the elderly. This study developed a machine-learning model to predict sarcopenia using data from 664 participants. …”
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Diagnosis and Management of Lentigo Maligna: Clinical Presentation and Comprehensive Review by Piyu Parth Naik

“…LM is more common in the elderly, with a peak occurrence between the ages of 65 and 80 years. …”
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DRESSed for distress: a case of allopurinol-induced DRESS syndrome by Areti Kalfoutzou, Aikaterini Doumana, Aimilia-Iris Karamolegkou, Adam Mylonakis, Christos Piperis, Maria Dimitrakoudi, Eleni Mostratou

“…This report details the case of an elderly female patient who presented with an extensive rash covering her trunk and extremities which was concurrent with her use of allopurinol. …”
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Syringocystadenocarcinoma Papilliferum in a Fifteen-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jordan N. Halsey, Esteban Fernandez Faith, Suzanna J. Logan, Archana Shenoy, Kathleen M. Schieffer, Catherine E. Cottrell, Anna P. Lillis, Jennifer H. Aldrink, Bhuvana A. Setty, Gregory D. Pearson

“…There have been fewer than 100 described cases of this neoplasm in the literature, and all previously published cases have been described in adults, with the majority occurring in the elderly. We present a case of an adolescent female with a syringocystadenocarcinoma papilliferum arising from a large thigh mass harboring an in-frame alteration in MAP2K1 along with a brief review of the literature.…”
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Bisoprolol Transdermal Patch Is Effective for the Treatment of AF Tachycardia by Yoh Arita, Hajime Saeki, Miwa Miyoshi, Shinji Hasegawa

“…This report highlights the use of a bisoprolol transdermal patch to treat AF tachycardia in 3 adult elderly patients. In this paper, we report an initial treatment strategy using a bisoprolol transdermal patch and show heart rate trends for 24 hours.…”
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A Shocking Complication of a Pneumothorax: Chest Tube-Induced Arrhythmias and Review of the Literature by Shaun Cardozo, Kevin Belgrave

“…This is the first reported case of this occurring in a patient with an ICD leading to inappropriate shocks. Our elderly patient with emphysema presented with a spontaneous pneumothorax and developed rapid atrial fibrillation following emergency tube thoracostomy. …”
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Influence of a Soft Robotic Suit on Metabolic Cost in Long-Distance Level and Inclined Walking by Shanhai Jin, Shijie Guo, Hashimoto Kazunobu, Xiaogang Xiong, Motoji Yamamoto

“…Toward this goal, this paper experimentally evaluates the influence of an authors’ soft robotic suit, which has been developed to assist hip flexion for energy-efficient walking of elderly persons in daily life activities, on metabolic cost reduction in the long-distance level and inclined walking. …”
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Le processus incapacitant au cours du vieillissement : rôle de l’exercice/activité physique by Philipe de Souto Barreto, Anne-Marie Ferrandez

“…Although it is well established that physical exercise/activity contributes to maintain functional fitness at optimal levels, physical inactivity is a largely prevalent behaviour among elderly people, thus facilitating the disablement process. …”
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New Freedom through Medical Devices Based on the Global System for Mobile Communications: A Prospective Survey of 620 Users of the Swiss Limmex Emergency Wristwatch—An Original Stu... by Malek Tabbara, Onur S. Özgüler, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

“…About 500,000 elderly people in Switzerland suffer a fall each year. …”
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Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“…Various social-welfare tasks are touched upon – health care; care for the elderly, widows, orphans and invalids; the patron-client system as countermeasure to unemployment; distribution of land, grain, meals and money; alms, donations, foundations as well as education – with hardly any one of them being especially tailored to the poor. …”
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Lessons from a Mouse Model Characterizing Features of Vascular Cognitive Impairment with White Matter Changes by Masafumi Ihara, Hidekazu Tomimoto

“…Vascular cognitive impairment is the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease and is frequently responsible for the cognitive decline of the elderly. It is characterized by cerebrovascular white matter changes; thus, in order to investigate the underlying mechanisms involved in white matter changes, a mouse model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion has been developed, which involves the narrowing of the bilateral common carotid arteries with newly designed microcoils. …”
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The Pastoral Model of Educating Seniors at Universities of the Third Age at UPJPII in Krakow by Jan Dziedzic

“…Thanks to our U3A, many elderly people have improved their self-esteem and sense of dignity. …”
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