Determinants of exercise tolerance after acute myocardial infraction in older persons
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Results reveal that age alone groups 70% of the age-related decay in total work capacity or peak oxygen consumption in older persons. Data further indicate that addition of physical exercise and depression in the prediction model improves the treatment for older patients with recent miocardial infraction.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
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Disease severity and health-related quality of life across different chronic conditions
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Health-related quality of life (HRQL) and disease severity for different chronic conditions are discussed in this brief methodological report article. A cross-sectional analysis of three groups of 54 subjects each of patients older than 64 consecutively referred to outpatient clinics for stroke, PD or CHD, was carried out. Patients with cognitive impairment and severe comorbidity were excluded. In some disease, it was found, the relationship between clinical measures of disease severity and HRQL is nonlinear. Depending on initial severity, similar changes in disease severity may have different impacts on HRQL.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 2000
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Heart failure in community-dwelling older persons: aims, design and adherence rate of the ICARe Dicomano Project: an epidemiologic study
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Heart failure (HF) has been studied epidemiologically in older persons living at home using a cross-sectional survey with all subjects at least 65 years of age. The population examined was fairly representative of the original eligible group of 864. The data from the study are useful as a unique opportunity to evaluate the validity of the diagnostic clinical criteria for HF and to identify the pathophysiology underlying the syndrome and for investigating the relationship between HF, disability and comorbidity. Detection of HF in studies has depended on criteria validated in younger people only and perhaps not adequate in older subjects. The design and adherence rate, which was high, and the object of the ICARe Dicomano Project in Italy are discussed.
Publication Name: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Subject: Seniors
ISSN: 0002-8614
Year: 1999
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