BACKGROUND Radial artery access for coronary procedures is a safe and beneficial technique. However, elderly patients have been considered as a higher risk group of access site related complications compared to younger patients. This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility and safety of transradial coronary angiography or intervention in the elderly. METHODS A total of 6132 patient...

Divorce in Korean society is a phenomenon that occurs the early years of marriage or old age, and increase divorce age has been distinct last 10 years. The purpose this study was to identify structural connection between depression, health status, self-esteem, focusing on difference divorced elderly married elderly. For purpose, data 14th Korea Welfare Panel were used study. In study, only peop...

BACKGROUND Xerostomia, a subjective sense of dry mouth, is not generally regarded a disease despite its high prevalence among the elderly, and therefore continues to impair affected patients' quality of life. In traditional Korean medicine, 'Yin-Deficiency' has been implicated in the pathogenesis of xerostomia among the elderly. Yukmijihwang-tang is a famous herbal prescription used to relieve ...

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate performance on a word-chain task across two age groups (youth: 20~39 years and middle-aged groups: 40~64 years).Methods: In task, we analyzed number correct responses reaction times (time from final consonant/vowel previous word initial second syllable next word). correlation between ability Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWA...

The social environmental barriers are considered to be important because the "social participation" of people with impairments would be facilitated by the prevention and reduction of environmental barriers. The Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors (CHIEF) is one of the few scales to assess the environmental barriers. In this study, we developed the Korean version of CHIEF and evalu...

Because of increases in the elderly population and diabetic patients, the proportion of elderly among dialysis patients has rapidly increased during the last decades. The mortality and morbidity of these elderly dialysis patients are obviously much higher than those of young patients, but large analytic studies about elderly dialysis patients' characteristics have rarely been published. The reg...