Jack M. Guralnik

TL;DR: This chapter provides an overview of the main types of epidemiologic studies, their design and conduct, divided into descriptive studies, mainly providing information that characterizes an individual or population, and analytic studies, which are primarily aimed at answering questions about the relationships of study participant characteristics and disease outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the association between cognitive impairment, with and without subcortical features, and insulin resistance in an elderly community-dwelling population was tested. But the results were limited to individuals who had experienced stroke.

TL;DR: The study provides new information on risk factors for outpatient infections and raises new questions regarding the susceptibility to frequent infections in older women and the automated pharmacy record method used in this study offers a low-cost alternative for use in future epidemiologic research.

TL;DR: Evaluating the association between TBI and long-term nursing home (NH) entry among a nationally representative sample of older adults found beneficiaries with TBI entered NHs at higher rates relative to the non-TBI trauma and uninjured groups.

TL;DR: The aim of PROSALMEN is to understand how and to what extent changes in health behavior and pharmacological treatments in addition to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may counteract these processes.