Aging
Jan 28, 2022
Research has shown that COPD is a disease with extra-pulmonary and systemic manifestations, including prominent muscle wasting, explains Tze Pin Ng, MD. “There is a growing recognition that the prog...
Jan 24, 2022
Previous studies have established that patients aged 65 and older with COPD are at elevated risk for influenza-associated complications, such as hospitalization, ICU admissions, and death. Guidelines ...
Jan 24, 2022
Ketamine is typically used by anesthesiologists as an adjunct for general anesthesia and as a nonopioid analgesic. It has been explored for prevention of postoperative delirium, although results have ...
Jan 17, 2022
Accumulation of evidence has raised concern regarding the harmful effect of air pollution on cognitive function, but results are diverging. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal association of long...
Jan 10, 2022
In advanced age, both sarcopenia and erectile dysfunction (ED) occur with similar underlying causes through different mechanisms. In our study we investigated the association between sarcopenia and ED...
Jan 10, 2022
Gliomas are the most frequent type of brain tumors, with a high mortality rate and a lack of efficient targeted therapy. Methionine is an essential amino acid, and restriction of methionine in the die...
Jan 03, 2022
Superagers are defined as older adults who have youthful memory performance comparable to that of middle-aged adults. Classifying superagers based on the brain connectome using machine learning modeli...
Jan 03, 2022
We introduced a unique form of kinlessness: sole family survivorship, which describes the lack of family of origin (i.e., biological parents and siblings) kin. This form of kinlessness may be particul...
Dec 27, 2021
Risky alcohol consumption can occur from a young age and affects people of all age groups, sometimes requiring the intervention of the emergency medical services.Determining the timing and characteris...
Dec 27, 2021
The low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) is one of the popular treatment modalities allowing to boost the proliferation, differentiation, and migratory activity of cells, which might be a powerful ...
Dec 20, 2021
To investigate the effect of guided bone regeneration (GBR) on marginal bone loss (MBL) in the region of the mandibular posterior tooth by using a retrospective cohort study, in order to provide refe...
Nov 22, 2021
Ascending aortic dissection (AD) is a potentially fatal vascular disease associated with degradation and fragmentation of the elastic fibers in the aortic media, increasing low-stress distensibility, ...
Nov 15, 2021
Age-related changes in auditory processing affect the quality of life of older adults with and without hearing loss. To distinguish between the effects of sensorineural hearing loss and aging on corti...
Nov 01, 2021
While evidence suggests that long-term air pollution (AP) and noise may adversely affect cognitive function, little is known about whether environmental exposures also promote structural changes in un...
Oct 25, 2021
Measuring "home time," number of days not in facility-based care, with medical claims is a promising approach to assess person-centered outcomes on a population level. Generally, spending more time at...
Oct 18, 2021
To explore how age and sex affect the impacts of self-rated health, self-reported physical activities, physical function, and depressive symptoms on long-term mortality among community-dwelling middle...
Oct 18, 2021
Telomere biology is closely linked to the process of aging. The restoration of telomere length by maintaining telome-rase activity in certain cell types of human adults allows for the proliferative ca...
Oct 11, 2021
Bronchiolar adenomas (BAs)/ciliated muco-nodular papillary tumors (CMPTs), are small, peripheral lung nodules arising predominantly in the elderly that follow a benign course. They can be mistaken for...
Oct 04, 2021
Ghrelin, leptin and high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin have been linked to depression in middle-aged adults. Pathophysiological mechanisms of depression change as age progresses and it is unclear...
Sep 27, 2021
(1) Background: The older adult population of society is exposed to multiple stressors daily, such as the loss of loved ones, dysfunctional mobility, financial dependence, and suffering from numerous ...