L. De Bernardini

TL;DR: In a sample of elderly subjects admitted to long-term care, the impact of malnutrition, according to the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), on mortality and on the occurrence of Adverse Clinical Events in a 3-12 months follow-up study is verified.

TL;DR: No genotype or allele of the polymorphisms examined here seemed to be associated with vascular dementia or with Alzheimer’s disease, total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels were lower in Alzheimer”s disease patients than in vascular dementia patients and in elderly controls, and the dementia patients with APOB EcoRI R+R– genotype had higher totalolesterol and cholesterol levels than R-R+ homozygotes.

TL;DR: This study replaced the subjective assessment of health and nutritional status with an objective evaluation and tried to neutralize the effects of the defective answers of the Mini Nutritional Assessment by modifying the total score and the cut-off points of the test.

TL;DR: The data indicate that in AD patients aged less than 81 years, epsilon 4 is clearly associated with AD and that it can be considered a risk factor for AD chiefly before this age.

TL;DR: A single model valid for both sexes is found to predict stature in italian elderly: Stature = 94.87 + 1.58 knee-height - 0.23 age + 4.8 sex.