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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.
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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).

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Cardiovascular Risks Associated with Gender and Aging.

TL;DR: Current findings regarding the impacts of age and gender on heart disease are discussed and hormone replacement therapies are largely shown to not improve outcomes in older patients and may also increase the risks of cardiac events in older adults.
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Anthocyanins, Microbiome and Health Benefits in Aging.

TL;DR: A review of existing literature on the role of anthocyanins and the gut microbiome on health and their potential as a natural therapeutic agent or a target organ to provide an alternative to the conventional methods of disease prevention and treatment is presented in this paper.
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Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity: An Evaluation of Potential Bias.

TL;DR: Both underweight and obesity, particularly higher levels of obesity, were associated with increased mortality relative to the normal weight category, and underweight was associated with reduced mortality.
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‘Inclined abstainers’: A problem for predicting health-related behaviour

TL;DR: PMT provides a useful account of choice motivation but does not address the psychological processes by which intention is translated into action, suggesting that the development of a social psychology of volition is discussed in the light of these findings.

BMI and all-cause mortality in older adults: a meta-analysis 1-3

TL;DR: In this article, a 2-stage random-effects meta-analysis was performed of studies published from 1990 to 2013 that reported the RRs of all-cause mortality for community-based adults aged ≥ 65 y.
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Nutritional and Health Consequences Are Associated with Food Insecurity among U.S. Elderly Persons

TL;DR: It is indicated that food-insecure elderly Persons have poorer dietary intake, nutritional status and health status than do food-secure elderly persons.
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