Frailty in elderly people
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Developing more efficient methods to detect frailty and measure its severity in routine clinical practice would greatly inform the appropriate selection of elderly people for invasive procedures or drug treatments and would be the basis for a shift in the care of frail elderly people towards more appropriate goal-directed care.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2013-03-02 and is currently open access. It has received 5456 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Frailty syndrome & Stressor.read more
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Sarcopenia: Revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft,Gulistan Bahat,Jürgen M. Bauer,Yves Boirie,Olivier Bruyère,Tommy Cederholm,Cyrus Cooper,Francesco Landi,Yves Rolland,Avan Aihie Sayer,Stéphane M. Schneider,Cornel C. Sieber,Eva Topinkova,Maurits Vandewoude,Marjolein Visser,Mauro Zamboni +15 more
TL;DR: An emphasis is placed on low muscle strength as a key characteristic of sarcopenia, uses detection of low muscle quantity and quality to confirm the sarc Openia diagnosis, and provides clear cut-off points for measurements of variables that identify and characterise sarc openia.
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2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation
Jean-Philippe Collet,Holger Thiele,Emanuele Barbato,Olivier Barthelemy,Johann Bauersachs,Deepak L. Bhatt,Paul Dendale,Maria Dorobantu,Thor Edvardsen,Thierry Folliguet,Chris P Gale,Martine Gilard,Alexander Jobs,Peter Jüni,Ekaterini Lambrinou,Basil S. Lewis,Julinda Mehilli,Emanuele Meliga,Béla Merkely,Christian Mueller,Marco Roffi,Frans H. Rutten,Dirk Sibbing,George C.M. Siontis +23 more
TL;DR: A correction has been published: European Heart Journal, ehaa895, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa-895.
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Evidence-Based Recommendations for Optimal Dietary Protein Intake in Older People: A Position Paper From the PROT-AGE Study Group
Juergen M. Bauer,Gianni Biolo,Tommy Cederholm,Matteo Cesari,Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft,John E. Morley,Stuart M. Phillips,Cornel C. Sieber,Peter Stehle,Daniel Teta,Renuka Visvanathan,Elena Volpi,Yves Boirie +12 more
TL;DR: To help older people (>65 years) maintain and regain lean body mass and function, the PROT-AGE study group recommends average daily intake at least in the range of 1.2 g protein per kilogram of body weight per day.
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The end of AIDS: HIV infection as a chronic disease
TL;DR: Concerns are growing that the multimorbidity associated with HIV disease could affect healthy ageing and overwhelm some health-care systems, particularly those in resource-limited regions that have yet to develop a chronic care model fully.
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The World report on ageing and health: a policy framework for healthy ageing.
John R. Beard,Alana Officer,Islene Araujo de Carvalho,Ritu Sadana,Anne Margriet Pot,Jean-Pierre Michel,Peter Lloyd-Sherlock,JoAnne E. Epping-Jordan,Geeske Peeters,Wahyu Retno Mahanani,Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan,Somnath Chatterji +11 more
TL;DR: The first World report on ageing and health is released, reviewing current knowledge and gaps and providing a public health framework for action, built around a redefinition of healthy ageing that centres on the notion of functional ability.
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