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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Dietary weight-loss interventions for the management of obesity in older adults.
S. Goisser,S. Goisser,Eva Kiesswetter,Daniel Schoene,Daniel Schoene,Gabriel Torbahn,Jürgen M. Bauer,Jürgen M. Bauer +7 more
TL;DR: Further research is needed to elucidate which interventions are effective in reducing obesity-related health risks in older adults without causing relevant harm in this vulnerable population.
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Prevalence of Sarcopenic Obesity Using Different Definitions and the Relationship With Strength and Physical Performance in the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging.
Sarah A. Purcell,Michelle L. Mackenzie,Thiago G Barbosa-Silva,Isabelle J. Dionne,Sunita Ghosh,Mario Siervo,Ming Ye,Carla M. Prado +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the prevalence of sarcopenic obesity using different published definitions and their relationship with handgrip strength and walking speed in older Canadian adults, using dual X-ray absorptiometry.
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Age-Related Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction Is Aggravated by Obesity: An Investigation of Contractile Function, Implications and Treatment.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided a review of the literature to understand the effect of obesity on the age-induced reduction in skeletal muscle contractile function and the consequences of these changes to whole-body functional performance.
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Using Natural Language Processing and Sentiment Analysis to Augment Traditional User-Centered Design: Development and Usability Study.
Curtis L. Petersen,Ryan J. Halter,David Kotz,Lorie Loeb,Summer B. Cook,Dawna Pidgeon,Brock C. Christensen,John A. Batsis +7 more
TL;DR: This is the first analysis using NLP and usability questionnaires in the quantification of user-centered design of technology for older adults and found a positive association with positive sentiment in an interview and SUS score.
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Association among Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Cardiovascular, Obesity, and Anthropometric Variables of Overweight and Obese Middle-Aged and Older Adults
Pablo Jorge Marcos-Pardo,Noelia González-Gálvez,Noelia González-Gálvez,Alejandro Espeso-García,Tomás Abelleira-Lamela,Abraham López-Vivancos,Abraham López-Vivancos,Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal +7 more
TL;DR: CRF as an independent factor and combined with AMedDiet can be associated with BP, body composition, and proportionality in overweight and obese middle-aged and older adults.
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