CONCLUSION: These data provide an insight into sensitive issues seldom reported by elderly men, which result in poor general health, but could be addressed given adequate service provision. The relationship bet
1 Although palliative medicine has gained recognition as an important aspect of care, little research has focused on the incidence and risk factors for problems commonly affecting patients with terminal cancer. One such problem is bowel obstruction (BO), which occurs when a cancerous growth or ...
We speculate that this is because inguinal her- nia and colon cancer are both more common in older men. Fourteen reports described the duration of the hernia problems, of which eight cases (more than half ) involved hernia problems lasting for more than 10 years. Although the course of ...
A nursing home is a place of residence for people with health problems and significant deficiencies in activities of daily living (ADL), requiring medical or nursing care. Nursing home residents could be described as "frail older persons who have impaired physical activity, mobility, muscle ...
Traditionally, owing to microvas- cular and testosterone level changes in older men, ED has been considered an aging male d isease9. Recently, a large multinational study reported that the prevalence of ED in young men is as high as 30%10. Depression, anxiety, and organic lesions are ...
in prevalence during the past 75 years, even though prevalence numbers have been fluctuating due to the periodic changes in official symptom criteria. Based on questionnaire data, women are 1.5–3.0 times more likely to have IBS, reflecting a prevalence in women of 14% and in men of 8.9% [...
Patients 65 years of age or older have a higher risk for some of the long-term side effects of PPIs highlighted above, in part due to the higher prevalence of concomitant chronic diseases. It is therefore important to carefully select individuals, especially among the elderly, who need long-...
Interestingly, sex differences in dietary coping with GI symptoms have also been reported[25]. Female IBS patients seem to be more willing to implement nutritional behavior changes alleviating the GI problems than men, although both men and women could benefit similarly from these changes[25]. ...
Age-associated bladder and lower bowel dysfunction in humans Ageing of the bladder and lower bowel may result in problems of storage of faecal material and urine (waste), manifest in incontinence (Tariq et al.2003; Wehrberger et al.2012) and problems with the elimination of waste resulting in...
However, the recent data also confirm the safety of biological therapy in an older group of IBD patients [17,18,19]. Furthermore, in real-world settings, biologic users with IBD are usually older in comparison to those treated in controlled settings, indicating the necessity of conducting ...