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Association between sensory impairment and sarcopenia in older Chinese adults: a 4-Year longitudinal study | BMC Geriatrics

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Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Baeyens JP, Bauer JM, Boirie Y, Cederholm T, Landi F, et al. Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis. Age Ageing. 2010;39(4):412–23. Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Fielding RA, Vellas B, Evans WJ, Bhasin S, Morley JE, Newman AB, et al. Sarcopenia: an undiagnosed Condition in older adults. Current Consensus Definition: prevalence, … Read more

A longitudinal cohort study on dispensed analgesic and psychotropic medications in older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: the HUNT study | BMC Geriatrics

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Ahorsu DK, Lin CY, Imani V, Saffari M, Griffiths MD, Pakpour AH. The fear of COVID-19 scale: development and initial validation. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2020;20:1537–45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-020-00270-8. Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5. 5th ed. Warshington, DC: 2013. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596. Åsvold BO, Langhammer A, … Read more

How being super fit helped heart attack survivor, 39, recover in double-quick time

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Despite a stuffy nose and tightness in his chest, Jason Shaw felt like running. Of course he did. At 39, he had been exercising nearly every day for more than half his life. He had run seven marathons. He led an outdoor exercise group in Indianapolis, in the US state of Indiana, that met before … Read more

Polypharmacy and anticholinergic burden scales in older adults: a cross-sectional study among psychiatric outpatients in a tertiary care hospital | BMC Geriatrics

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In this cross-sectional study, anticholinergic burden and polypharmacy were investigated in patients attending the psychiatry outpatient. We observed one-fifth of our study population taking five or more medications with an average of 3.16 drugs prescribed per patient, and on further analysis the polypharmacy and the seven anticholinergic burden scales were found to be positively associated. … Read more