Reports on the findings of a study by Purdue University on relatively healthy people aged 85 and older. Adaptation to old age by daily talking with friends and meeting change without fear; Combination of factors that contribute to ...
67]. Characterization of these cells from young and elderly donors revealed that those in poor health conditions of either age group had significantly more Tregcells than their healthy counterparts. In healthy adults (aged 20-60 years
Using two large nationally representative studies of ageing, in the USA and England, we showed that clustered behavioural risk factors are associated with shorter life expectancy, as well as, shorter healthy life expectancy. At the ages of 50, 60 and 70, men and women with two or more of t...
maintaining a healthy body weight, limiting alcohol use, and avoiding smoking. In addition to that, the ability to adapt and to self manage have been suggested as core components5 of human health. Personal health also depends partially6 on the social structure of a person's life. The maintena...
healthy lifestyle21,22,23,74. Indeed, recent evidence from Latin American older adults underscores a more pronounced influence of heterogeneous and disparity-related factors (that is, social determinants of health, education, mental health symptoms and physical activity) on healthy aging relative to ...
However, to enable healthy ageing there is a need to focus on health promotion as well as risk prevention. The preventive home visit (PHV) to older persons is an example of a public health intervention that includes both health promotion and risk prevention, and it has the aim of helping...
Another main methodological difference to these other studies is that they applied binary logistic regressions to the quintile health scores, where they defined those in the highest two quintiles as healthy and the rest as unhealthy. The decision as to at which quintile the cut-off into healthy ...
Additional analysis verified once again that comorbid with diabetes mellitus, atrial fibrillation, being overweight, and current smoking, lack of physical exercise had a remarkably impact on higher inpatient costs. Comorbid with hypertension and lack of physical exercise also significantly increased LOS. ...
Center for Healthy Aging and Development Studies, National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China Yi Zeng Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke Medical School, Durham, NC, USA Yi Zeng Contributions J.S.J. conceived the research hypothesis that focused on the...
The impact of genetic variation on overall disease burden has not been comprehensively evaluated. We introduce an approach to estimate the effect of genetic risk factors on disability-adjusted life years (DALYs; ‘lost healthy life years’). We use genet