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INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization aims at promoting initiatives focused on the preservation of individuals' physical and mental capacities to achieve older ages in a good health status (Healthy Aging). The INSPIRE Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE)-CARE is an European program for
Patients were recruited with diagnosis of mild or medium dementia, according to criteria by NINCDS-ADRDA (National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke-Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association) as probable or possible Alzheimer's disease. Upon signature of
The investigators broad objective is to examine in a prospective study whether an association exists between hyponatremia and psychomotor deficits. The specific aims are:
A.) To measure muscle strength by use of a dynamometer in patients presenting with moderate to severe hyponatremia (serum sodium
Patient Selection:
Screen ~400 Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients followed in Centro Hospitalar do Porto outpatient clinic. All RA patients with regular follow-up will be potentially included.
The investigators also aim to enrol age-matched controls for biomarker comparison.
Experimental
Decision to perform this observational study was made due to the lack of information on the local incidence and risk factors for the development of immediate postoperative delirium (IPD).
A literature review was done to study the already implicated perioperative causative factors as well as other
1.2 Definitions: A. Hypoglycemia: a blood glucose level of 70 mg/dL or lower, regardless of symptoms B. Hypoalbuminemia: Albumin level below 3.5 g/dL upon admission to the hospital C. Adequate nutritional consumption: the consumption of at least half of the oral nutritional supplements D. Target
This is a randomized open-label Phase 2 trial with parallel design using no-treatment group as control. Subjects in the treatment arm will receive subcutaneous G-CSF with the dosage of 10 microgram/kg/day, for 5 continuous days in the first week. The second dosage will be given in the 12 week. If
The hypothesis of this work is that in patients with malnutrition, the incidence of overlap between delirium and depression is higher and causes worse health outcomes during hospital admission due to hip fracture. In addition, an increase in the incidence of other geriatricBoth groups. syndromes
For interests in clinical translation of 18F-S16, an open-label dynamic whole-body PET/CT study was designed to investigate safety and diagnostic performance of 18F-S16 in patients with neurodegenerative dementia. A single dose of nearly 370 MBq 18F-S16 will be intravenously injected into healthy
Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a highly prevalent neuro-cognitive complication of cirrhosis characterized by cognitive dysfunction, and high rate of subsequent mortality and recurrence. HE also places a tremendous burden with a relentless increase in inpatient stay duration with charges topping
Hemodialysis (HD) is the most worldwide prescribed renal replacement therapy for patients with end-stage renal disease. This treatment that relies heavily on technology has undergone major modifications in the last five decades in order to improve patients' outcomes. Those changes that aimed at
This is a community-based cluster randomized control trial aimed to investigate the impact of lifestyle modification (diet, physical activity, alcohol drinking and smoking) on the development of dementia, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and
Study population The medical records of patients undergoing hip surgery under general anaesthesia with neuromuscular blocking agents at Konkuk University Medical Center from February 2012 to August 2014 review.
The patients were divided according to use (S group) or not (C group) of sugammadex for
Postoperative delirium (POD) is an acute confusional state associated with changes in consciousness, arousal level and cognitive status. Elderly patients with hip fractures have the high incidence of delirium. The high risk factor of delirium include: Age 65 years or older, cognitive