background: to analyse time trends in self-rated health in older people by gender and age and examine disability in the time trends of self-rated health. methods: the data used come from the spanish national health surveys conducted in 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2011-12. samples of adults aged 16 yr and older were selected. multivariate logistic regression was used to assess the association between a...

conclusions more than half of the patients were disabled after 3 months of trauma. elderly patients, patient with severe trauma, and long hospitalization and patients with extremity injuries were high risk for disability. results the mean disability scores at 1 and 3 months post-injury was 30.3 (9.2) and 18.8 (8.3), respectively and there was a statistical significant difference between disabil...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) as well as MS disease activity is associated with vitamin D (25(OH)D) status. The relationship between the main functional disability hallmark of MS, disability progression, and 25(OH)D status is less well established though, especially not in MS patients with progressive disease. METHODS This retrospective follow-up stud...

ramadan fasting predispose multiple sclerosis (ms) patients to a great challenge. clinicians should have practical knowledge about the effects of fasting on ms. a mini-symposium was held in 2013 to answer the common questions about fasting in ms patients. in current review we present a summary of the mentioned mini-symposium.generally, fasting is possible for most stable ms patients. thorough m...

conclusions the results suggested that apr1 gene expression in c. albicans strains isolated from ms patients may be an important factor for invasive c. albicans strains in the progression of ms disease. results there was a statistically significant difference in apr1 gene expression of c. albicans strains between ms patients (mean ± sd: 0.5208 ± 0.11518) and the control group (mean ± sd: 0.7603...

STUDY OBJECTIVES There are few data describing disability and health status for ethnic groups. The disablement process involves social influences, which may include minority status. Cross sectional data were examined to investigate the relation of ethnicity to disability. DESIGN A stratified random digit dialled sample of women aged 40 and older. Disability and health status were measured as ...

OBJECTIVES to analyse socio-demographic differences in the onset and progression of disability. DESIGN analysis of a cohort of people aged 55-69 in 1988-9 and in 1994. SUBJECTS a representative sample of 3543 adults. METHODS we measured severity of disability at baseline and follow-up. We analysed variations in incidence and progression of disability by using logistic regression. RESULT...

background: similar to developed countries, aging is increased in india. because of the epidemiology and demographic transition phase, chronic diseases and disabilities along with health costs are increasing day by day. as social factors and chronic diseases are the major reasons for geriatric disability, the present study was done with the following objectives: to assess and compare the socio-...

BACKGROUND The critical importance of improving the well-being of people with disabilities is highlighted in many national health plans. Self-reported health status is reduced both with age and among people with disabilities. Because both factors are related to health status and the influence of the age at disability onset on health status is unclear, we examined the relationship between disabi...