When it comes to vitamin D, most adults exhibit either frank deficiency, which results in clear clinical symptoms, or insufficiency, which often goes undetected. But how that insufficiency impacts physical health and the ...
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Drinking coffee and tea at midlife may be associated with a reduced likelihood of physical frailty in late life. A Singapore study has shown that adults, who consumed higher intake of caffeine via the drinking of coffee or ...
Oct 6, 2023
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Physicians should prescribe physical activity to all older patients, regardless of frailty status. A structured, moderate-intensity physical activity program was not associated with a reduced risk for frailty over 2 years ...
Jan 8, 2018
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Cognitive frailty is a heterogeneous clinical manifestation characterized by the simultaneous presence of both physical frailty and cognitive impairment, in the absence of dementia, and it seems to entail a greater death ...
Mar 12, 2019
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In the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Aging a research team led by aging expert Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, synthesizes converging evidence that the aging-related ...
Jan 14, 2021
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After doing specific training for 12 weeks, people over the age of 90 improved their strength, power and muscle mass. This was reflected in an increase in their walking speed, a greater capacity to get out of their chairs, ...
Sep 27, 2013
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Call it personalized medicine for depression—but the prescription in this case is exercise, which University of Florida Health researchers have found helps people with certain genetic traits.
Apr 27, 2016
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Frailty is a health condition that increases risks of poor health, falls, disability, and death in older adults. Signs of frailty include weakness, weight loss, slow walking speed, exhaustion, and low levels of activity. ...
Oct 18, 2018
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Money might not guarantee happiness, but it could buy you physical health in older age, new University of Queensland research shows.
Feb 24, 2016
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Increased levels of exercise could help reduce frailty in patients with the most common form of leukemia, chronic lymphocytic (CLL), according to new research from the University of Surrey. The discovery of a link between ...
Sep 20, 2022
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