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Jack M. Guralnik

Researcher at University of Maryland, Baltimore

Publications -  472
Citations -  90624

Jack M. Guralnik is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, Baltimore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Anemia. The author has an hindex of 148, co-authored 453 publications receiving 83701 citations. Previous affiliations of Jack M. Guralnik include National Institutes of Health & University of Florida.

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Coimpairments as predictors of severe walking disability in older women.

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to determine the combined effects of two impairments, decreased knee‐extension strength and poor standing balance, on the risk of developing severe walking disability among older, moderately‐to‐severely disabled women who did not have severe Walking disability at baseline.
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High-Frequency Vibration Training Increases Muscle Power in Postmenopausal Women

TL;DR: Reflex muscular contractions induced by vibration training improve muscle power in postmenopausal women and no significant changes were observed in bone characteristics.
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Low testosterone levels and the risk of anemia in older men and women

TL;DR: Older men and women with low testosterone levels have a higher risk of anemia, and total and bioavailable testosterone levels were associated with hemoglobin levels in women and in men.
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Assessing the impact of comorbidity in the older population

TL;DR: Two general approaches have been used to incorporate disease severity measures into comorbidity indices: assignment of severity scores to all relevant conditions with summation of these scores, and assignment of comor bidity severity based on the most severeComorbid disease present.