ft >^VIV ? V T IV I47 'laHenge of Middle Age. By J. H. Wallis. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, PK12s. 6d.) atrot,lems of mental health and mental illness present themselves in different ways e various periods of development in the life of an individual. In middle age faced with biological changes such as the menopause, early signs of ageing ^fulfi rea^sati?n that ltfe wiU inevitably draw to a close wi...

Studies comparing young and older adults suggest a deficit in processing context information as a key mechanism underlying cognitive aging. However, the genetic architecture of context processing has not been examined. Consistent with previous results, we found evidence of functionally dissociable components of context processing accuracy in 1127 late middle-aged twins ages 51-60. One component...

21W.730 [email protected] 3/17/97 Simon and Garfunkel I remember sitting ten rows back, watching the stage in awe. Standing there, side by side, were two quiet men. In front of them, a sea of faces, cut off abruptly by the rear of the theater. The crowd, most of them middle aged or older, were sitting quietly, staring back. Beside the two men on the stage were a couple of wooden stools, two...

Prolonged oesophageal pH monitoring is being used increasingly to detect abnormal gastro-oesophageal reflux. To assess the influence of age on normal reflux patterns, a group of 13 young asymptomatic subjects (mean age 22 years) was compared with a group of 14 middle aged asymptomatic subjects (mean age 49 years). An ambulatory system using a radiotelemetry capsule and a portable receiving syst...

a Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK b MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK c The Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK d MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U...

This saying was already a popular metaphor in the middle ages, and still is. A contemporary meaning of this would be: one who discovers by building on discoveries made by predecessors. And in this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, CHANG et al. [1] have done exactly that. Appreciating and using the ideas of a classical physiological study [2], and combining this with the results of mode...

The popularity of indoor tanning may be partly attributed to the addictive characteristics of tanning for some individuals. We aimed to determine the association between frequent indoor tanning, which we view as a surrogate for tanning addiction, and food addiction. A total of 67,910 women were included from the Nurses' Health Study II. In 2005, we collected information on indoor tanning during...

INTRODUCTION Multimorbidity is increasingly recognized as a key issue in the prevention and management of chronic diseases. We examined the prevalence and correlates of chronic disease multimorbidity in the general adult Canadian population in relation to age and other key determinants. METHODS We extracted data from the Canadian Community Health Survey 2011/12 on 105 416 Canadian adults. We ...

Those born with congenital cataracts tend to develop retinal detachments, irrespective of whether or not cataract surgery is undertaken (Malbran and Dodds, i964), although the patient may reach middle age before the retina separates (Shapland, I962). The prospects of curing such detachments are generally regarded as poor (McDonald, I957), and since the literature is devoid of any series giving ...

BACKGROUND There is considerable debate about the prevalence of depression in old age. Epidemiological surveys and clinical studies indicate mixed evidence for the association between depression and increasing age. We examined the prevalence of probable depression in the middle aged to the oldest old in a project designed specifically to investigate the aging process. METHODS Community-living...