Disease relevance of Geriatrics

• METHODS: All patients over 64 with either first-listed or secondary diagnosis of hypertension at discharge (N = 4487) out of 24585 consecutively admitted to 69 wards of Geriatrics or Internal Medicine during ten bi-monthly observation periods (May-June and September-October) were enrolled [1].

Psychiatry related information on Geriatrics

• Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in very elderly patients. Relevance of some functional and psychobehavioral aspects assessed by the Gottfries-Bråne-Steen Rating Scale for Dementia. Study Group on Brain Aging, Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics [2].

High impact information on Geriatrics

• Academic geriatrics for the year 2000. An Institute of Medicine report [3].
• PARTICIPANTS: Reviewers at 3 journals with a long-standing policy of masking author identity (Annals of Emergency Medicine, Epidemiology, and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society) and 4 journals without a policy of masking author identity (Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Ophthalmology) [4].
• Diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer disease and related disorders. Consensus statement of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Alzheimer's Association, and the American Geriatrics Society [5].
• Weight control and exercise. Cardinal features of successful preventive gerontology [6].
• (1991) Gerontology 37, 166-180) appears responsible for dityrosine release during the selective degradation of oxidatively modified proteins in red blood cells and red cell extracts [7].

Biological context of Geriatrics

• Integrating geriatrics into the subspecialties of internal medicine: the Hartford Foundation/American Geriatrics Society/Wake Forest University Bowman Gray School of Medicine Initiative [8].
• Although training programs exist in both medical oncology and geriatrics (approved by the American Board of Internal Medicine), neither is adequate to ensure an appropriate supply of physicians to assume a leadership role in the treatment of the increasing number of geriatric patients who have or will develop a malignancy [9].

Anatomical context of Geriatrics

• The relative frequencies of silver-stained nucleolar organizing regions (Ag-NORs) as a function of age have been analyzed in skin fibroblasts derived from eight adult individuals participating in the Gerontology Research Center (GRO) Longitudinal Study, NIA, Baltimore, MD [10].

Associations of Geriatrics with chemical compounds

• CONCLUSIONS: In 528 older patients seen in an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice, the prevalence of digoxin use was 19% [11].
• Overall illness severity was determined using the Cumulative Illness Rating Scale for Geriatrics. RESULTS: Low testosterone levels were present in 29 of 44 (65.9%) men [12].
• Risperdal advertising in JAGS. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society [13].
• The aim of this article is to describe neuroactive steroid research that has been focused on their physiological role in cognitive aging, an attractive new field in experimental gerontology [14].
• CONCLUSIONS: Measurement of serum LDL cholesterol and of appropriate use of lipid-lowering drugs and diet in older patients with MI, stroke, PAD, and no CAD, stroke, or PAD is underutilized in an academic, hospital-based geriatrics practice [15].

Gene context of Geriatrics

• METHODS: Home-dwelling non-demented subjects over 64 years of age consecutively attending 24 outpatient Departments of Respiratory Medicine or Geriatrics because of COPD (N = 233), asthma (N = 203), non-obstructive bronchitis (N = 92) or chronic non-respiratory and non-dementing diseases (controls, N = 1080) underwent a multidimensional assessment [16].
• Patients were those newly diagnosed as having SLE or referred within 6 months of diagnosis to the departments of medicine, geriatrics, and pediatrics at Tuen Mun Hospital, Hong Kong, between 1991 and 2003 [17].
• The recommendations come from synthesizing the findings of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the literature, and the consensus of experts in geriatrics, gerontology, and health policy research [18].
• Alex Comfort's biology of ontology: implications for gerontology, phenomenology and the philosophy of science [19].
• Thus, for the best understanding of the aging process, the study of antioxidant defenses has to be considered as part of gerontology [20].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Geriatrics

• Three general components make up the Geriatric Medicine Program: (1) clinical rotations in geriatric medicine in ambulatory residential facilities, in multilevel long-term care facilities, and in an acute care hospital; (2) geriatric case conferences; and (3) a seminar in gerontology and geriatric medicine [21].
• American Geriatrics Society on physician-assisted suicide: brief to the United States Supreme Court [22].

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