Study tests oral insulin to prevent type 1 diabetes
...children and young adults but is also diagnosed in older people. Patients need three or more insulin injections a day or treatment with an insulin pump to maintain blood glucose control. To prevent complications, they must regularly monitor their blood glucose, striving for a range that is as close to no...Oral wounds heal slower in women, older adults, study finds
Wounds in the mouth heal more slowly in women and older adults, a new study at the University of Illinois ...g number of surgical procedures being performed in older populations," Marucha said. "A greater emphasis needs to be placed on accelerating the healing proce...Solving a medical riddle to achieve scarless burns and wound healing
...fect the comparative healing and scarring rates of older and younger people. "Findings from the study will go towards achieving our ultimate goal of reducing the disfigurement associated with burn injury," Professor Wood said. "We also hope to gain important knowledge for the development of tailored burn...Embargoed Jan./Feb. Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...1,248 patients. This tool uses four risk factors older age, low weight, prior fragility fracture and using arms to rise from a sitting position that in this study are found to predict two-year hip fracture risk. Validation of a 4-Item Score Predicting Hip Fractures and Mortality Risk Among Elderly Women...Regular acupressure can significantly reduce agitated behavior in dementia
...ure can significantly reduce agitated behaviour in older patients with dementia, according to a study published in the February issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing. Researchers at the National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan found that providing 15-minute treatment sessions twice a day for f...Daily use of antidepressants associated with increased risk of fracture in older adults
...reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) by adults 50 years and older is associated with a doubled risk of some fracture...uated 5,008 community-dwelling adults 50 years and older who were followed up for over five years for incident fractures. Researchers examined the relations...Repeat bone mineral density scans do not appear helpful for predicting fractures in most older women
... additional benefit for predicting fractures among older postmenopausal women, according to a report in the...e., and colleagues measured total hip BMD in 4,124 older women (average age 72 years) in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures between 1989 and 1990 and again ...Rapid flu testing is associated with decreased antibiotic use in hospitalized adults
...ceived increased risk of bacterial infection in an older and frailer group." No significant differences were found between the two groups in the number of days taking antibiotics, the length of hospital stay or complications arising from antibiotics. Antiviral use was more common among those with positiv...Adding radiation decreases breast cancer recurrence
...revents development of additional breast tumors in older women with early stage breast disease, according t...ounger women. Making treatment recommendations for older patients, who may have more comorbidities than younger patients, is complicated by under-representat...Tamoxifen discontinuation rates surprisingly high in clinical practice
... national database of 2816 women aged 35 years and older who started tamoxifen for breast cancer. The researchers found that at 12 months 22 percent of women had ceased using the drug. At 24 months 28 percent had stopped tamoxifen, and at 3.5 years 35 percent had stopped the treatment without commencing ...Radiation therapy reduces cancer recurrence in older breast cancer patients
...e risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer, according to resea...re for younger patients, it is has been shown that older women are less likely to receive them," said lead author Ann M. Geiger, M.P.H., Ph.D., an associate ...Study finds differences between blood pressure medicines and newly-diagnosed diabetes
...ARBs prevent people from getting diabetes, and the older diuretics or beta-blockers, increase the chance that a person becomes diabetic, compared to either placebo (inactive sugar-pills) or calcium channel blockers according to a study published in the January 20, 2007 issue of The Lancet. Rush Preventi...Study suggests hip fractures not caused by benzodiazepine use after all
...of more than 90,000 Medicaid recipients age 65 and older before and after a policy was implemented in New York in 1989 requiring benzodiazepine prescribing on triplicate forms. Since then, all physicians in the state are required to obtain, pay for, and use serially-numbered triplicate forms to prescribe b...Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years
...tention and cognitive control in both children and older adults. Those results inspired Bialystok and her research team to ask, "So what does this mean for the onset of dementia?" In this present study, researchers set out to answer that question by examining the diagnostic records of 184 patients who cam...JRRD releases single-topic issue focused on vision rehabilitation
...l sensory impairment and everyday competence among older adults, pg. 777 Dual sensory impairment in hearin...d vision currently affects from 5 to 21 percent of older adults. Using Longitudinal Study on Aging (LSOA) data, we examined the associations between self-rep...Telomere length may predict risk of coronary heart disease in middle-aged men
...ry time a cell divides. Shorter telomeres indicate older cells. Previous research has shown that people with coronary heart disease are more likely to have short telomeres, but whether shorter telomere length is a consequence of heart disease or a predictive marker for it, has been unclear until now. Ni...Pancreatic cancer surgery five-year survivors 65 and up live nearly as long as anyone
... study shows that pancreatic cancer patients 65 or older who live at least five years after surgery have ne...urgery, at least half of whom were 65 years old or older at the time of surgery. Of those five-year survivors, an estimated 65 percent lived at least an addi...Education does not protect against age-related memory loss, say USC researchers
...stently related to better cognitive performance in older adults and in this study, too, individuals with hi... a nationally representative longitudinal study of older Americans. Participants, born in 1923 or earlier, were interviewed up to four different times throug...Teens overlooked in cancer research
...e dismal when compared to those for youngsters and older adults with the disease. "While there have been improvements in survival in children and older adults in recent decades there has been no such improvement in this age group in the past 25 years o...CHICAGO -- The sleep problems of older people are often not addressed by their primary ca...orthwestern University. When patients 60 years and older visited their primary care doctors, physicians did not note sleep problems in the patients' charts. ...