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Mashup Score: 27Exergame and cognitive training for preventing falls in community-dwelling older people: a randomized controlled trial - 2 month(s) ago
Nature Medicine – In a randomized clinical trial enrolling older people living in a community setting, exergame step training on a computerized mat, but not seated cognitive training, decreased the…
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Quality of Life Research – Increasingly there are calls to routinely assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of older people receiving aged care services, however the high prevalence of…
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Understanding the ways our immune response changes as we age holds the key to designing better vaccines and boosting protection for people most at risk. Research published by Dr. Michelle Linterman and her group today in Nature Immunology has explained that the organization of the germinal center, which is vital to the generation of longer-lived protection following vaccination, is altered in…
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Commentary on: Hu M, Hu H, Shao Z, Gao Y, Zeng X, Shu X, Huang J, Shen S, Wu IXY, Xiao LD, Feng H. Effectiveness and acceptability of non-pharmacological interventions in people with mild cognitive impairment: Overview of systematic reviews and network meta-analysis. J Affect Disord 2022;311:383–90. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.043. Epub 2022 May 18. MCI is potentially reversible.1 There are…
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Commentary on: Hu M, Hu H, Shao Z, Gao Y, Zeng X, Shu X, Huang J, Shen S, Wu IXY, Xiao LD, Feng H. Effectiveness and acceptability of non-pharmacological interventions in people with mild cognitive impairment: Overview of systematic reviews and network meta-analysis. J Affect Disord 2022;311:383–90. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.043. Epub 2022 May 18. MCI is potentially reversible.1 There are…
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Mashup Score: 0Preventing falls in older people: new evidence on what helps - - 12 month(s) ago
Sarah Chapman shares new evidence on what can be done to reduce falls in older people at home by making safety adaptations to the home.
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Mashup Score: 20Resistance Training Improves Sleep and Anti-Inflammatory Parameters in Sarcopenic Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial - 1 year(s) ago
Sleep and exercise have an important role in the development of several inflammation-related diseases, including sarcopenia. Objective: To investigate the effects of 12 weeks of resistance exercise training on sleep and inflammatory status in sarcopenic patients. Methods: A randomized controlled trial comparing resistance exercise training (RET) with a control (CTL) was conducted. Outcomes were…
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Mashup Score: 6Are Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency Risk Factors for the Incidence of Dynapenia? - Calcified Tissue International - 1 year(s) ago
Epidemiological evidence showing the association between low 25(OH)D and age-related reduction in neuromuscular strength (dynapenia) is a paucity and controversial and, to date, the effect of osteoporosis and vitamin D supplementation on these associations has not been measured. Thus, we analyze whether serum 25(OH)D deficiency and insufficiency are risk factors for the incidence of dynapenia in…
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Mashup Score: 10Age-induced prostaglandin E2 impairs mitochondrial fitness and increases mortality to influenza infection - Nature Communications - 1 year(s) ago
Ageing has been associated with impaired function of alveolar macrophages and increased susceptibility, mortality and complications as a result of viral infection. Here, the authors show that prostaglandin E2 is one of the factors responsible for impairing immune defences against influenza during ageing.
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Mashup Score: 11Daily Low-Dose Aspirin and Risk of Serious Falls and Fractures in Healthy Older People - 1 year(s) ago
This randomized clinical trial examines whether daily low-dose aspirin reduces the risk of fractures or serious falls in healthy older men and women.
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