A new study that analyzes the interplay or of race, poverty, politics and age distribution on COVID-19 vaccination rates in each county across the United States has found that the impact of each factor is not universal across ...
Oct 11, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Current chronic kidney disease (CKD) definitions that do not consider age-related estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline may inflate the burden of CKD in the elderly, according to a study published ...
Sep 8, 2021
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An analysis of Washington state Department of Health data—published after peer review March 24—has found that people under 40 years old have continued to become infected by the coronavirus at increasing rates even as ...
Mar 25, 2021
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A bitter lesson of the past month is that viruses move fast. The good news of the deployment of the first COVID-19 vaccines was accompanied by the bad news that a new variant of the virus had emerged, quickening the disease's ...
Feb 5, 2021
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Late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly, affecting almost 44 million people worldwide. Despite decades of research, genetic factors that predispose individuals to LOAD are ...
Dec 8, 2020
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-in-four people who died from COVID-19 in the U.S. had been living in a long-term care facility. The sobering statistic is even more alarming when you consider ...
Oct 6, 2020
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As Australia's aged care sector continues to be scrutinized, researchers at the University of South Australia show that plain solutions are often the best, with a new study finding that aged care residents can improve their ...
Oct 1, 2020
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Western Sydney University researchers have used advanced statistical analysis to better understand how countries are impacted by COVID-19.
Sep 21, 2020
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The hormone, ghrelin, may help protect the elderly population from muscle loss, according to a study being presented at e-ECE 2020. The study found that administering a particular form of ghrelin to older mice helped to restore ...
Sep 8, 2020
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New research from Karolinska Institutet shows that the degree of frailty, a measure of a person's functional level before contracting the disease, can better predict COVID-19 survival than the patient's age. The analysis ...
Aug 19, 2020
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