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Frailty and survival of older Chinese adults in urban and rural areas: Results from the Beijing Longitudinal Study of Aging
January 2012(Vol. 54 | No. 1 | Pages 3-8)
Pulin Yu, Xiaowei Song, Jing Shi, Arnold Mitnitski, Zhe Tang, Xianghua Fang, Kenneth Rockwood

Association between inflammatory-related disease burden and frailty: Results from the Women's Health and Aging Studies (WHAS) I and II
January 2012(Vol. 54 | No. 1 | Pages 9-15)
Sandy S. Chang, Carlos O. Weiss, Qian-Li Xue, Linda P. Fried

Transcranial sonography (TCS) in Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) in relation with putative premotor symptoms of PD
25 January 2012
Joong-Seok Kim, Yoon-Sang Oh, Yeong-In Kim, Ja-Seong Koo, Dong-Won Yang, Kwang-Soo Lee
Abstract: Background: Hyperechogenicity of substantia nigra (SN+) is a common finding in transcranial ultrasound studies of parkinsonian patients. However, this feature is also found in 13–16% of ET p...
The prevalence and detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD)-related metabolic complications as a function of estimated glomerular filtration rate in the oldest old
20 January 2012
Gijs Van Pottelbergh, Bert Vaes, Michel Jadoul, Catherina Matheï, Pierre Wallemacq, Jean-Marie Degryse
Abstract: Background: The prevalence of CKD rises with age. The prevalence of CKD-related metabolic complications in the oldest old in relation to different GFR estimations is largely unknown. eGFR-ba...
Corrigendum to “Breast cancer in elderly women” [Arch. Gerontol. Geriatr. 39 (2004) 291–299]
18 January 2012
Nebojsa Djordjevic, Aleksandar Karanikolic, Miomir Pesic
The authors apologize for reproducing several sections of text from two articles published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and The American Journal of Surgery. They also acknowledge th...
Orthostatic hypotension (OH) and mortality in relation to age, blood pressure and frailty
12 January 2012
Michael R.H. Rockwood, Susan E. Howlett, Kenneth Rockwood
Abstract: Systolic hypertension and OH, as with many other deficits, accumulate with age. This deficit accumulation results in frailty: enhanced vulnerability to adverse outcomes. This study evaluated...
Yearly transitions of disability profiles in older people living at home
06 January 2012
Michel Raîche, Réjean Hébert, Marie-France Dubois, N’Deye Rokhaya Gueye, Nicole Dubuc
Abstract: Purpose: Planning home services for older people requires extensive knowledge about the progression of disabilities. Disability-based case-mix classifications identify meaningful groups of o...

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