Robert G. Cumming

TL;DR: Although low serum T, DHT, SHBG, and cFT were associated cross-sectionally with metabolic syndrome among community-dwelling older men, over a 2-year follow-up period only SHBG remained significant after multivariate adjustment, suggesting that lowered circulating androgens (T and DHT) may be biomarkers rather than causally related to incident metabolic syndrome.

TL;DR: 2 Department of Epidemiology and Geriatric Medicine, Centre for Education and Research on Ageing, Concord Hospital, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

TL;DR: Falls become more frequent with increasing age, and studies have shown that around a third of elderly people living in the community have one or more falls each year.

TL;DR: Despite adequate overall nutrition, vitamin D deficiency is present in the majority of this population, and Vitamin D deficiency remains a significant public health problem in the institutionalized frail elderly.

TL;DR: No evidence that polypharmacy results in any harm is found among older HIV infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa and it’s more prevalent among frail people, who have been in hospital in the last year and who have be seen by an internist.