Dehydration and Cognition in Geriatrics: A Hydromolecular Hypothesis
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Dehydration and Cognition in Geriatrics: A Hydromolecular Hypothesis
Dehydration is one of the ten most frequent diagnoses responsible for the hospital admission of elderly in the United States. It is associated with increased mortality, morbidity and an estimated cost of 1.14 billion per year (Xiao et al., 2004; Schlanger et al., 2010; Pretorius et al., 2013; Frangeskou et al., 2015). Older individuals are predisposed to dehydration encephalopathy as a result o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2296-889X
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00018