Addressing Obesity in Aging Patients
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The insufficient evidence related to pharmacotherapy as well as providing an overview of using physiologic rather than chronologic age for identifying suitable candidates for bariatric surgery are discussed.About:
This article is published in Medical Clinics of North America.The article was published on 2018-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 108 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quality of life (healthcare).read more
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Vitamin D, genetics, and bone mineral density during weight loss.
TL;DR: The relations of changes in circulating vitamin D levels with bone health during weight-loss interventions remain to be established, and the role of genetic factors would be considered in future investigations.
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Ventriculoatrial shunts as an alternate therapy in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus refractory to ventriculoperitoneal shunts: A Case series
TL;DR: In this paper , the successful placement of ventriculoatrial (VA) shunts in two patients with NPH and increased intra-abdominal pressure secondary to high BMI was evaluated.
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Social determinants of obesity in American Indian and Alaska Native peoples aged ≥ 50 years
R. Turner Goins,Cheryl Moseley Conway,Margaret Reid,Luohua Jiang,Jennifer Chang,Kimberly R. Huyser,Angela G. Brega,John F. Steiner,Amber Fyfe-Johnson,Michelle Johnson-Jennings,Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka,Spero M. Manson,Joan O’Connell +12 more
TL;DR: The findings contribute to the understanding of social determinants of obesity among olderAI/AN and highlight the need to investigate AI/AN obesity, including longitudinal studies with a life course perspective to further examine social determinant of obesity in older AI/ AN.
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Ventriculoatrial shunts as an alternate therapy in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus refractory to ventriculoperitoneal shunts: A Case series
TL;DR: In this paper, the successful placement of ventriculoatrial (VA) shunts in two patients with NPH and increased intra-abdominal pressure secondary to high BMI was evaluated.
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Prevalencia de obesidad y obesidad abdominal en la población española de 65 y más años de edad: estudio ENPE
TL;DR: The prevalencia de obesidad and OA in the Spanish population was evaluated in a recent study as discussed by the authors, with respect to a población no institucionalizada.
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