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51 – Kidney Disease in the Elderly
Ann M. O’Hare,C. Barrett Bowling,Manjula Kurella Tamura +2 more
- pp 437-445
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The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Kidney disease.read more
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Estudo da saúde oral e necessidades de tratamento em idosos institucionalizados
TL;DR: Information is provided on how to identify the individual cells of the immune system that secrete the substance known as “plasmas”, a type of “spatially aggregated substance” that is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease and other inflammatory diseases.
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Renal Failure in the Elderly
Theodore H. Yuo,Mark Unruh +1 more
TL;DR: Elderly patients present a large and growing portion of the population suffering from chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease, and it is especially important for practitioners to carefully elicit patient preferences and to provide realistic education regarding prognosis before offering vascular surgery interventions.
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Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States
Josef Coresh,Elizabeth Selvin,Lesley A. Stevens,Jane Manzi,John W. Kusek,Paul W. Eggers,Frederick Van Lente,Andrew S. Levey +7 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of CKD in the United States in 1999-2004 is higher than it was in 1988-1994 and this increase is partly explained by the increasing prevalence of diabetes and hypertension and raises concerns about future increased incidence of kidney failure and other complications.
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Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance.
TL;DR: It is suggested that adhering to current CPGs in caring for an older person with several comorbidities may have undesirable effects and could create perverse incentives that emphasize the wrong aspects of care for this population and diminish the quality of their care.
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Cancer Screening in Elderly Patients: A Framework for Individualized Decision Making
TL;DR: A framework to guide individualized cancer screening decisions in older patients may be more useful to the practicing clinician than age guidelines because it anchors decisions through quantitative estimates of life expectancy, risk of cancer death, and screening outcomes based on published data.
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Functional Status of Elderly Adults before and after Initiation of Dialysis
Manjula Kurella Tamura,Kenneth E. Covinsky,Glenn M. Chertow,Kristine Yaffe,C. Seth Landefeld,Charles E. McCulloch +5 more
TL;DR: The initiation of dialysis is associated with a substantial and sustained decline in functional status among nursing home residents with ESRD, and this decline was independent of age, sex, race, and functional-status trajectory before the initiation ofdialysis.
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Age Affects Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease
Ann M. O’Hare,Andy I. Choi,Daniel Bertenthal,Peter Bacchetti,Amit X. Garg,James S. Kaufman,Louise C. Walter,Kala M. Mehta,Michael A. Steinman,Michael Allon,William M. McClellan,C. Seth Landefeld +11 more
TL;DR: Age is a major effect modifier among patients with an eGFR of <60 ml/min per 1.73 m(2) at baseline, challenging us to move beyond a uniform stage-based approach to managing CKD.