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Just get out door! Importance of walking outside the home for maintaining mobility: findings from the women's health and aging study

Article Abstract:

A longitudinal cohort study on one thousand two cognitively intact community-resident female Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older and on determining the relation between volitional walking behavior and change in walking ability and lower extremity function for a period of one year is presented.

Author: Fried, Linda P., Volpato, Stefano, Simonsick, Eleanor M., Guralnick, Jack M., Balfour, Jennifer
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2005
Walking

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The effect of age on lower urinary tract function: a study in women

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The results of clinical investigations for identifying the relationship between age and lower urinary tract function in women are discussed. The study was conducted on women volunteers with and without bladder symptoms indicating detrusor overactivity.

Author: Resnick, Neil M., Griffiths, Derek J., Pfisterer, Mathias H.-D., Schaefer, Werner
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006

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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and risk of developing urinary incontinence

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The relation between type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and urinary incontinence is examined. It is shown that Diabetes Mellitus makes women more prone to the development of urinary incontinence.

Author: Hu, Frank B., Grodstein, Francine, Barbieri, Robert L., Curhan, Gary C., Karen L. Lifford,
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2005
Women, Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus

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Subjects list: Health aspects, Research, United States, Aged women, Elderly women, Risk factors, Urinary incontinence
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