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Autor:
Ram Doolman, Yosef Dror, Zeev Polyak, Yitshal N. Berner, Felicia Stern, Shmuel Levy, John M. Gomori, Ben-Ami Sela, Marina Isayev
Publikováno v:
Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 16:39-45
Elevated fasting plasma total homocysteine concentration (tHcy) and lower vitamin status are associated with atherosclerotic states. Silent brain ischemic lesions and brain atrophy, prevailing in the elderly, are affected by tHcy and vitamin status.
Publikováno v:
QJM. 94:457-463
Hypercholesterolaemia is an established major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) in the general population. In the vast majority of studies that focused on this particular age group and carefully eliminated other confounding factors such as
Publikováno v:
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology. 11:1-4
The term euthyroid sick syndrome (ESS) is used to describe abnormalities in thyroid function tests that are observed in patients with systemic non-thyroid illness. Despite these abnormalities, there is usually little clinical evidence of hypothyroidi
Autor:
Shmuel Levy, Epraim Rimon
Publikováno v:
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology. 10:133-147
Constipation is a common complaint in geriatric patients, especially when older people are asked specifically about their bowel habits. It can cause serious complications, such as recurrent urinary tract infections, urinary incontinence, faecal incon
Autor:
Nadya Kagansky, Yitshal N. Berner, Hilla Knobler, Shmuel Levy, Luiza Perelman, Nira Koren-Morag
Publikováno v:
The American journal of clinical nutrition. 82(4)
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is prevalent in elderly populations. Recommended methods of nutritional screening are often too complicated and time-consuming for routine application in frail, very old, hospitalized patients. OBJECTIVE: Our aims were to ide
Publikováno v:
Age and ageing. 34(4)
Background: as there are no prospective randomised trials about percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) insertion, the medical staff and caregivers encounter great difficulty in deciding when and if to perform this procedure. Objective: to explore
Publikováno v:
Harefuah. 143(11)
Recent case reports described primary esophageal achalasia (PEA) at an older age, even in the very elderly. However, very few cases over the age of eighty were published and there is no data on the clinical presentation and the appropriate treatment
Autor:
Hilla Knobler, Zvi Fridman, Daniel Keter, David H. Berger, Nadya Kagansky, Ephraim Rimon, Stephen Malnick, Zhomicky Taiba, Shmuel Levy
Publikováno v:
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver. 24(6)
Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a common entity in the general population, has been shown to be linked with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. Several of the components of the metabolic syndrome are more common in the a
Autor:
Shmuel Levy, Michael Kagansky, Nadya Kagansky, Lora Mechnick, Ephraim Rimon, Tony Mashiah, Michael Namir
Publikováno v:
The American journal of medicine. 118(10)
Purpose Elderly patients are vulnerable to the dose-dependent adverse effects of iron replacement therapy. Our study examines whether low-dose iron therapy can efficiently resolve iron-deficiency anemia in patients over the age of 80 years and reduce
Publikováno v:
QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians. 97(5)
BACKGROUND As serum creatinine is relatively inaccurate for estimating renal function, prediction formulae are commonly used for more precise renal function estimation. However, these equations have not been studied in acutely hospitalized octogenari