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According to a greater and greater number of remarks, the existing relation between physical capability to perform daily physical tasks and the future state of good health has been strengthened, until it has arrived at a link between this capability and mortality. With a systematic review on [...]
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Vitamin D deficiency implies some dysfunctions which are well known, but still little has been ascertained on the relation between cognitive capabilities and this vitamin. An Italian trial on elderly (inCHIANTI trial, published in the Journal of American Geriatric Society in 2000) has given the [...]
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There are not many randomized trials on the use of statins in elderly. Some researchers have then analyzed the efficacy and the safety of rosuvastatin in a subgroup of elderly belonging to the JUPITER trial, a randomized, placebo-controlled trial, sponsored by pharmaceutical industry. Participants [...]
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In order to verify whether simple overweight is an increased risk of death in elderly, some researchers in Israel have identified about 2400 elderly (averagely 70-85 years of age at the beginning of the trial) and have followed them for a maximum period of 18 years. Their physique was defined as [...]
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According to previous trials, published in 2005, it seems that the administration of vitamin D supplements increases muscle strength and balance, obtaining a preventive action on falls. In this meta-analysis, the efficacy of the use of various forms of vitamin D (colecalciferol, ergocalciferol and [...]
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In spite of their frequency, syncopes still represent a quite mysterious and difficult disease to diagnose and treat, above all in elderly. In this trial, performed in Connecticut, the medical records of over 1900 consecutive patients ≥ 65 and hospitalized for syncope have been examined. The use [...]
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In the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism two trials have been published focusing on vitamin D levels in old people. In the first one, plasmatic levels of 25-OH-vitamin D have been measured in 6000 males (between 65 and 99) living in various regions of the USA. Plasmatic average [...]
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Even if falls in elderly represent a severe problem, multidisciplinary interventions to prevent them not always obtain encouraging results, as two new trials show. In New Zealand, 312 elderly (averagely 81), presenting at least one fall during the previous 12 months, have been enrolled. About half [...]
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Even if it is an important and frequent problem, the relation between decrease in physical function and nutrition in elderly has not been deeply examined yet. In order to assess the role of micronutrients, some Italian researchers have followed 698 adults (average age 74) for three years, after a [...]
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The age-related decrease of testosterone recorded in elderly led to the conviction by many physicians that a supplementation with this hormone can decrease physical, functional and cognitive damages typical of old age. In order to verify the usefulness of this practice, a double-blinded trial was [...]