Mild cognitive deterioration with subcortical features: prevalence, clinical characteristics, and association with cardiovascular risk factors in community-dwelling older persons (the InCHIANTI Study)
Article Abstract:
Studies show that low cognitive performance and gait disturbance are linked to atrial fibrillation, hypertension, and low HDL cholesterol, which may also indicate subcortical vascular damage. Data were obtained from 556 subjects 70 to 90 years of age in Italy's Tuscany region.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2003
Psychological aspects, Cardiovascular diseases, Causes of, Risk factors, Demographic aspects, Cognition disorders in old age, Geriatric cognitive disorders, Gait disorders
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2003
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Association between hormones and metabolic syndrome in older Italian men
Article Abstract:
The effects of age-related hormonal changes on metabolic syndrome development in older Italian men are presented.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Hormones & Related Preparations, Hormone Preparations, Care and treatment, Aged, Elderly, Hormones, Metabolic syndrome X
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2006
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Subjects list: Health aspects, Italy, Physiological aspects
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