Vol. 22, Nr 3 - June 2010

Summary

MINI REVIEW

Page 192 An open-ended question: Alzheimer’s disease and involuntary weight loss: which comes first?
Emine M. Inelmen, Giuseppe Sergi, Alessandra Coin, Agostino Girardi and Enzo Manzato
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Page 198 BsmI polymorphism in the vitamin D receptor gene is associated with leg extensor muscle strength in elderly men
Gulistan Bahat1, Bulent Saka1, Nilgun Erten1, Ugur Ozbek2, Ender Coskunpinar2, Safinaz Yildiz3, Turker Sahinkaya3 and Mehmet Akif Karan1
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Page 206 Effects of weight loss on ventricular systolic and diastolic functions and left ventricular mass assessed by tissue doppler imaging in obese geriatric women: preliminary report
Murat Varli1, Sibel Turhan2, Sevgi Aras1, Teslime Atli1 and Gurbuz Erdogan3
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Page 212 Vulnerability in high-functioning persons aged 65 to 70 years: the importance of the fear factor
Laurence Seematter-Bagnoud1,2, Brigitte Santos-Eggimann2, Stéphane Rochat1, Estelle Martin1, Athanassia Karmaniola2, Kamiar Aminian3, Chantal Piot-Ziegler4 and Christophe J. Büla1
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Page 219 Improving health for elderly people: an international health promotion and disease prevention agenda
Richard W. Besdine1 and Terrie Fox Wetle2
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Page 231 Low acceptance of treatment in the elderly for the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fracture in the acute rehabilitation setting
Sarah D. Berry1,2, Devyani Misra1,2, Marian T. Hannan1,2 and Douglas P. Kiel1,2
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Page 238 Association of periodontitis and metabolic syndrome in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
Mark J. Nesbitt1, Mark A. Reynolds2, Harlan Shiau2, Kyong Choe2, Eleanor M. Simonsick1 and Luigi Ferrucci1
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Page 243 Quality of care in congestive heart failure in the elderly: epidemiological evidence of a gap between guidelines and clinical practice
Stefano Brocco1, Mauro Zamboni2, Francesco Fantin2, Maria Marchesan1, Elena Schievano1, Francesco Zambon1, Chiara Bozzano2, Vincenzo Di Francesco2, Corrado Vassanelli3 and Paolo Spolaore1
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Page 249 Effect of a program of multifactorial fall prevention on health-related quality of life, functional ability, fear of falling and psychological well-being. A randomized controlled trial
Ane Bonnerup Vind1,2, Hanne Elkjaer Andersen1, Kirsten Damgaard Pedersen1, Torben Joergensen2 and Peter Schwarz1
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Page 255 An index of self-rated health deficits in relation to frailty and adverse outcomes in older adults
Anna Lucicesare1, Ruth E. Hubbard2, Samuel D. Searle2 and Kenneth Rockwood2,3
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Page 261 Role of method of implementing multi-factorial falls prevention in nursing homes for elderly persons. The EUNESE project
Katarzyna Szczerbinska¹, Marek Zak² and Anna Ziomkiewicz³
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Page 270 The complications of septic arthritis in the elderly
Alan Molloy1, Alan Laing1, Kieran O’Shea1, Leann Bell2 and Kieran O’Rourke1
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