Macronutrient composition and sarcopenia in the oldest-old men: The Helsinki Businessmen Study (HBS).
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DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2020.04.024
Abstract: BACKGROUND & AIM Sarcopenia is associated with increased risk for several adverse health outcomes including frailty, disability, loss of independence, and mortality. We examined cross-sectional associations between sarcopenia and detailed dietary macronutrient composition in community-living… read more here.
Keywords: sarcopenia; sarcopenia oldest; macronutrient composition; oldest old ... See more keywords
Cost-effectiveness of novel imaging tests to select patients for carotid endarterectomy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2019.05.001
Abstract: Abstract Objective We estimated the cost-effectiveness of novel imaging tests to select patients for carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients with significant carotid stenosis using a computer model and explored the minimum prognostic performance that a… read more here.
Keywords: year old; test; cost effectiveness; cost ... See more keywords
No country for old men: gender disparities in Portuguese mortality
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DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.318
Abstract: Portugal is divided into 25 NUTS 3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics). Mortality tracking is one of the core elements of SDG3 indicators. It can also be used as an essential metric to SDG5… read more here.
Keywords: gender disparities; country old; old men; mortality ... See more keywords
‘THIS IS NO COUNTRY FOR OLD (WO)MEN’? AN EXAMINATION OF THE APPROACH TAKEN TO CARE HOME RESIDENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwac023
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article discusses the human rights of residents in care homes in England who were affected by restrictions that were imposed during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to safeguard health… read more here.
Keywords: health; men examination; human rights; old men ... See more keywords
No country for old men: five prevalent stereotypes affecting the life of the elderly
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DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2020.61.184
Abstract: “That is no country for old men” is the first line of William Butler Yeats’ poem “Sailing to Byzantium” (1). Although the poem was written in 1928, the line became famous only in 2007, when… read more here.
Keywords: men five; country old; old men; five prevalent ... See more keywords
Are Old Men Impotent? On a Sparse Discourse of Early Modern Medicine and Its Forensic Implications in Paolo Zacchia’s Quaestiones medico-legales
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192416513
Abstract: In early modern medical literature, there are increasing references to sterility and impotence in older men. This is especially true of the Quaestiones medico-legales by the Roman physician Paolo Zacchia (1584–1659). In several books of… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; old men; medico legales; early modern ... See more keywords