Adrian M. Ostfeld

TL;DR: The authors speculate that the presence of cholesterol gallstones in male patients may be indicative of an unfavorable lipoprotein profile, which has clinical implications in that male gallstone patients are at increased risk for subsequent coronary disease and should be monitored accordingly.

TL;DR: Inability to walk a half mile, climb stairs, or perform heavy housework was significantly associated with increased risk of pneumonia mortality for women but not for men in the same multivariate models, and men and women whose body-mass index was above the median had significantly lower risk of tuberculosis mortality compared with those in the lowest quartile.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of thiazide diuretic agents on the incidence of hip fracture among 9518 men and women 65 years of age or older residing in three communities was investigated.

TL;DR: The results suggest that spouses of community-dwelling impaired individuals are not so severely affected that they cannot function normally, however, they suffer from health problems that can have serious consequences.

TL;DR: Inmates who were retransferred to cells after a short stay in dormitories experienced a mean decline in SBP, which suggests that crowding may be reversible in its early stages, and SBP decreased after continued stay in the dormitory, indicating that adaptation may occur.