Psychological resilience has been associated with increased longevity in the oldest old; however, its significance in the broader older adult population has not been thoroughly explored. There is a lack of understanding regarding its relationship with cause-specific mortality in older adults. This study...
Age, smoking and heart rate are all-cause mortality risk factors for elderly menBriggs and colleagues' study suggested comparable mortality benefits from statins and apples.1 However, their study may not give due credit to statins for several reasons. Firstly, the clinical effect of statins was ...
factors, including age, sex, residence, education, marital status, smoking status, drinking status, regular exercise, intake of vegetables, intake of fruit, intake of meat, intake of fish, BMI, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, respiratory disease, and cancer....
Randomised trial of losartan versus captopril in patients over 65 with heart failure (Evaluation of Losartan in the Elderly Study, ELITE). Lancet. 1997;349(9054):747-752. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(97)01187-2 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 20. Cohn JN, Goldstein SO, Greenberg BH...
Important social changes took place with women entering the labour market in the 1960s and family size gradually decreasing with a lower number of children in each family. Other time trends include the demographic changes with increasing lifespan and more elderly people surviving into age ranges ...
Resting Heart Rate and All-Cause Mortality in Elderly Japanese-American Men: The Honolulu Heart Programdoi:10.1016/j.jamda.2008.12.040SuwitdaCholitkulandSuwitdaCholitkulandChristinaBellandSuteevanSDOSJournal of the American Medical Directors Association...
This specific project was an initiative of the New South Wales Cardiovascular Research Network and was supported by the New South Wales Division of the National Heart Foundation of Australia. Role of the Sponsor: The sponsor was not involved in the design and conduct of the study; in the ...
Spline plot of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level and all-cause mortality rate. The adjusted odd ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated with logistic regression models after adjusting for age (continuous), sex, race, marital status, education level, smoking status...
This cohort study uses data from the Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly clinical trial to examine the associations of changes in body weight and
Vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer: the Women’s Health Study: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2005;294(1):56-65. doi:10.1001/jama.294.1.56ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 23. Ridker PM, Cook NR, Lee IM, et al. A randomized trial of low-...