This study compares projections, up to year 2040, of young-old (aged 60-79) and old-old (aged 80+) with functional disability in Singapore with and without accounting for the changing educational composition of the Singaporean elderly. Two multi-state population models, with and without accounting for educational composition respectively, were developed, parameterized with age-gender-(education...

Objective(s): This study aimed to investigate the effect of aerobic training on serum levels of Klotho, cardiac tissue levels of H2O2 and phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and P38 as well as left ventricular internal diameter (LVID), the left ventricle wall thickness (LVWT) and fibrosis in middle-aged rats. Materials and Methods: Forty wistar rats, including young rats (n=10, 4 month-old) and middle-ag...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate the distribution of cerebral artery stenosis in patients with the ischemic cerebrovascular disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and forty-four patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease were enrolled and divided into three age brackets, the youth group (18-44 years old, 12 cases), middle-aged group (45-59 years old, 45 cases), and the...

Abstract Objective: Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) have a markedly increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. There are some recommendations for prescription of aspirin in these patients. Our purpose was to determine aspirin usage rate in diabetic patients and to compare it in different ages and based upon cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Materials and M...

background: considering that there was not any regional survey in isfahan, iran regarding the epidemiology of acute respiratory tract infections (arti) in different age groups of general population, the aim of this study was to determine the epidemiologic feature of artis in isfahan using multiplex polymerase chain reaction (pcr) method. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study,pati...

abstract objective: patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (dm) have a markedly increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. there are some recommendations for prescription of aspirin in these patients. our purpose was to determine aspirin usage rate in diabetic patients and to compare it in different ages and based upon cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors. materials and meth...

BACKGROUND Older age is associated with chronic illnesses and disability, which contribute to increased admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Our primary objective was to compare the characteristics, ICU management and outcomes of critically ill patients ≥ 80 year-old with those of younger patients. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of patients admitted to a tertiary-care IC...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to characterize emergency department (ED) visits for pediatric sport-related concussion (SRC) in pre-high school- versus high school-aged athletes. METHODS A stratified probability sample of US hospitals that provide emergency services in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (1997-2007) and All Injury Program (2001-2005) was used. Concu...

In this study the measurement and structural equivalence was tested across two instruments, the original Dutch version of the Competentie-Beleving Schaal voor Kinderen (CBSK) and a shortened and simplified version of the same test across different ages. The CBSK is intended for children between 8 and 12 years old. The shortened version is developed for children aged between 6 and 8 years old. T...

Background: We investigated the differences between partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide and end-tidal carbon dioxide (P(a-ET)CO2) with respect to the Broca-Katsura index (BKI), which is an obesity index, in obese patients during general anesthesia. Materials and Methods: From January 2003 to December 2013, we studied 601 patients aged 16 years old or over undergoing general anesthesia. ...