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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Pharmacotherapy of obesity: an update on the available medications and drugs under investigation
Marlene Chakhtoura,Rachelle Haber,M. Ghezzawi,Caline Rhayem,Raya Tcheroyan,Christos S. Mantzoros +5 more
TL;DR: Several anti-obesity medications have been proposed, such as Metreleptin, Setmelanotide and Tirzepatide as mentioned in this paper , which act centrally to reduce appetite and increase satiety, and secondarily in the gastrointestinal tract to slow gastric emptying.
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Effects of 12 Weeks of Combined Exercise on Heart Rate Variability and Dynamic Pulmonary Function in Obese and Elderly Korean Women
TL;DR: Lee et al. as discussed by the authors investigated whether a combination of aerobic and resistance exercise administered over a period of 12 weeks enhanced heart rate variability (HRV) and dynamic pulmonary function (DPF) in obese and elderly Korean women.
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Wandering Dementia—A Syndrome with Forensic Implications
TL;DR: Nine individuals with dementia who were found deceased having been reported as missing from home/residential facilities and established clinical diagnoses were of dementia in seven cases and Alzheimer disease in two.
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Body composition associations with muscle strength in older adults living in Auckland, New Zealand.
TL;DR: The objective is to investigate associations between body composition and muscle strength in older people and to establish a smoking cessation strategy for older people with a history of chronic disease.
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Metabolic, Molecular, and Behavioral Effects of Western Diet in Serotonin Transporter-Deficient Mice: Rescue by Heterozygosity?
Ekaterina Veniaminova,Raymond Cespuglio,Irina M. Chernukha,Angelika G. Schmitt-Boehrer,Sergey Morozov,Allan V. Kalueff,Oxana Kuznetsova,Daniel C. Anthony,Daniel C. Anthony,Klaus-Peter Lesch,Klaus-Peter Lesch,Klaus-Peter Lesch,Tatyana Strekalova +12 more
TL;DR: The findings show that Sert+/− mice are resilient to certain environmental challenges and support the concept of heterosis as evolutionary adaptive mechanism.
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