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Réjean Hébert
Researcher at Université de Montréal
Publications - 185
Citations - 14052
Réjean Hébert is an academic researcher from Université de Montréal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Health care. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 181 publications receiving 13078 citations. Previous affiliations of Réjean Hébert include Université de Sherbrooke & D'Youville College.
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Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Prospective Analysis from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging
Joan Lindsay,Danielle Laurin,René Verreault,Réjean Hébert,Barbara E. Helliwell,Gerry Hill,Ian McDowell +6 more
TL;DR: Regular physical activity could be an important component of a preventive strategy against Alzheimer's disease and many other conditions, and use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, wine consumption, coffee consumption, and regular physical activity were associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer's Disease.
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A brief clinical instrument to classify frailty in elderly people
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Prevalence, Attributes, and Outcomes of Fitness and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Report From the Canadian Study of Health and Aging
Kenneth Rockwood,Susan E. Howlett,Chris MacKnight,B. Lynn Beattie,Howard Bergman,Réjean Hébert,David B. Hogan,Christina Wolfson,Ian McDowell +8 more
TL;DR: Fitness and frailty form a continuum and predict survival, even in old age, and are potentially useful markers of the risk for adverse health outcomes, and add value to traditional medical assessments that focus on diagnoses.
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Reliability, Validity and Reference Values of the Zarit Burden Interview for Assessing Informal Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Older Persons with Dementia *
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the ZBI questionnaire to assess the burden experienced by the caregivers of persons with dementia and found no significant difference in the burden score according to the age, gender, living arrangement, marital status or employment status of the caregiver.
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Validation of the Box and Block Test as a measure of dexterity of elderly people: reliability, validity, and norms studies.
TL;DR: The results show that the test-retest reliability is high and the validity of theBBT is shown by significant correlations between the BBT, an upper limb performance measurement and a functional independence measurement, which will help rehabilitation clinicians to differentiate better between real difficulties and those that may be attributed to normal aging.