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Task Force neutral on routine dementia screening
Routine screening for dementia in older adults is neither recommended nor discouraged by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). In its recently published guidelines on screening for dementia in primary care, the group said the existing evi... [ More ]

Coronary Artery Disease: What's Different for Women?

Although heart disease afflicts one in four women age 65 and older and one in 12 age 45 to 64, "coronary disease in women has gone relatively unrecognized," warned physician educator Ken Grauer, M.D.

Several surveys have documented the need f... [ More ]

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Withholding or withdrawing artificial administration of food and fluids in nursing-home patients
Background: withholding or withdrawing artificial administration of food and fluids, especially in incompetent patients, has been the subject of turbulent discussions. Insight into this practice may be useful in the debate, and also in the developmen... [ More ]

Sex differences of body fat distribution and cardiovascular dysmetabolic factors in old age
Background: the relationship between sexual differences of body fat distribution and cardiovascular dysmetabolic factors in old people is controversial.

Objectives: to use centrality index-derived body fat distribution to clarify its relation... [ More ]

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