The manifestation of cognitive and physical impairment in stroke patients before the acute event suggests accumulating subclinical vascular pathology in the brain. We investigated whether impairments in cognitive and physical functioning were associated with an increased stroke risk. Between 2002 and 2008, ...
Stroke events were defined based on the World Health Organization definition as “rapidly developing clinical signs of focal, at times global, disturbance of cerebral function, lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death with no apparent cause other than that of vascular origin”15 or by ...
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fabricated a pressure sensor based on graphene/PVDF ferroelectric composites for monitoring the vital signs of humans. The pixel array-equipped multilayer e-skins can distinguish between the size and spatial distribution of different tactile inputs. Fig. 9(G1) depicts a schematic representation of e...
Another important observation is that, although the final period of stretching exercises was reported by both groups as the most pleasant part for all three intervention sessions [41, 42], and the experimental group exhibited signs of a ceiling effect (M1 ± SD = 4.43 ± 0.79;...
The SARC-F screened for signs of sarcopenia through self-report, including five items: lack of strength, walking, rising from a chair, climbing stairs, and falling. Each item was scored on a 0–2 scale from easy to difficult [37]. The scores for all items were summed, and an ...
Presenting signs and symptoms of multiple myeloma (MM) include bone pain, pathologic fractures, weakness, anemia, infection (often pneumococcal), hypercalcemia, spinal cord compression, and renal failure. In approximately 30% of cases, MM is discovered through routine blood screening when patients are...
often overlook the physical signs and symptoms of depression. In one case, researchers found that sleep troubles, fatigue, and worries about health are reliable indicators of depression in older adults. But, they found, these signs are routinely and incorrectly dismissed as a natural part of aging...
A condition is “any deviation(s) from the normal structure or function of the body, as manifested by a characteristic set of signs and symptoms (typically a recognised distinct disease or a syndrome)” (section 1). From: Clinical Research in Paediatric Psychopharmacology, 2020 ...
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