Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: older age http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Predictors of mortality, CVD risk in cushing's disease ID'd (HealthDay)—A number of factors, including the duration of glucocorticoid exposure, older age at diagnosis, and preoperative adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) concentration, are associated with a higher risk of mortality in patients treated for Cushing's disease (CD), according to research published online Feb. 7 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-predictors-mortality-cvd-cushing-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:27:14 EST news281366820 Increasing poverty in older age will lead to adverse health outcomes, researchers warn Many people will be much poorer than they had expected in their older age and this has profound implications for the health of our ageing population claims an editorial published today in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-poverty-older-age-adverse-health.html Health Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:33:00 EST news273493894