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Frailty, Disability, and Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Older Adults.

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In community-dwelling older adults, frailty and disability were independently associated with lower diurnal BP, blunted nocturnal decline of SBP, and higherNocturnal SBP.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.The article was published on 2017-12-01. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ambulatory blood pressure.

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Global, regional, and national burden of diseases and injuries for adults 70 years and older: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study

Stefanos Tyrovolas, +686 more
- 10 Mar 2022 - 
TL;DR: Life expectancy at age 70 has continued to rise globally, mostly because of decreases in chronic diseases, and adults aged ≥70 living in high income countries and regions with better healthcare access and quality were found to experience the highest life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
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Is living alone a risk factor of frailty? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: The present systematic review and meta-analysis showed a significant cross-sectional association between living alone and frailty, especially in men, however, living alone did not predict incident frailty.
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Marital Status and Risk of Physical Frailty: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal and cross-sectional studies examining associations between marital status and physical frailty among community-dwelling older people showed almost twice higher frailty risk in unmarried individuals compared with married individuals.
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Blood pressure in relation to frailty in older adults: A population-based study.

TL;DR: Frail individuals had a substantially lower BP compared with non‐frail older adults and the findings raise questions about hypertension management in this population and stress the need for additional evidence.
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Orthostatic Hypotension in the Elderly: A Marker of Clinical Frailty?

TL;DR: OH is a common condition in frail older adults, and it is strongly associated with mortality, disability, and hospitalization in the highest frailty degree, and may represent a new marker of clinical frailty.
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Frailty in Older Adults Evidence for a Phenotype

TL;DR: This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition, and finds that there is an intermediate stage identifying those at high risk of frailty.
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Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

M. P. Lawton, +1 more
- 21 Sep 1969 - 
TL;DR: Two scales first standardized on their own population are presented, one of which taps a level of functioning heretofore inadequately represented in attempts to assess everyday functional competence, and the other taps a schema of competence into which these behaviors fit.
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2013 ESH/ESC Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension: The Task Force for the management of arterial hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

Giuseppe Mancia, +89 more
TL;DR: In this article, a randomized controlled trial of Aliskiren in the Prevention of Major Cardiovascular Events in Elderly people was presented. But the authors did not discuss the effect of the combination therapy in patients living with systolic hypertension.
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