Sentences with phrase «common in older people»

Vitamin B12 deficiency is caused by a wide range of factors including low gastric acidity (common in older people,) use of acid blockers or excessive laxative use, lack of intrinsic factor, poor absorption from the intestines, lack of Calcium, heavy metal toxicity, or excessive Vitamin B12 degradation.
This is very common in older people and can cause prolonged symptoms of fatigue or feelings of weakness.
This is more common in older people, women and those with a low body weight.
Both anemia and low hemoglobin levels, which are proteins in red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body, are also common in older people, said Phyo Myint, M.D., senior study author and Professor of Medicine of Old Age at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
The condition is thought to be more common in older people, but the true prevalence is unknown, in part because patients and their relatives may attribute their sleepiness to old age, or older people can compensate by napping.
Though it's fairly rare, some toddlers can develop rosacea, a skin disorder more common in older people.

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Overall, though, Millennials of both genders seem to have more in common with one another than they do with older people of their same sex.
This is the first premeditated mass shooting at this scale that involved people who both grew up entirely in a world in which mass shootings were common and which targeted people old enough to have a voice.
Some older people have the words from the Book of Common Prayer ingrained in their minds after years of repetition and can recall them with a clarity and understanding they may not have with other information.
With all of this in mind, and in response to common questions I receive when speaking at mainline churches, I've dusted off and updated this older post from 2013 with seven ways to welcome young people to the mainline:
I'm not as concerned about someone ending their prayer «in Jesus name» as I am to hear people praying in Old English, using «thou,»» thy» or «thine» to use a couple of common ones.
It is a Western writing, Hellenistic, probably Roman; obviously written in Greek, and not, I believe, the translation of a completed work in a Semitic tongue; and yet resting back upon traditions that were certainly far older than its own date, undoubtedly Palestinian in origin, and circulating originally in the Aramaic language spoken by the common people of Galilee and Judea in the days of our Lord.
That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.
We have assimilated the common view that the whole of the Old Testament points to the coming of the Messiah, and that its predictions and expectations were completely and obviously fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
I believe that when God promised to preserve his Word he didn't just mean he would preserve it in the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek on 2,000 year old papyrus and parchment, but he would preserve his words / the message of the Gospel in the common languages of the people of the world, for all ages.
It fits better with our common sense to adopt a view not unlike that found in parts of the Old Testament: sin will have its harmful consequences for the person doing as well as for the person done to, not as a result of a special interventionist act of God but as a natural result of the sin itself.
When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [«the voice of the people = the voice of God»], as every philosopher knows, can not be trusted in science.
Of course the language of the Alternative Service Book lacks the oratundty and elegance of the similar «exhortation» in the old Book of Common Prayer; but it says the same things in a more contemporary idiom and speaks directly to the persons who hope to serve in the ministry.
At the Old Testament's end, therefore, we face contradictions, everywhere to be found in living religions, between the great insights of the prophets and the common faith and practise of the people.
In this very old prescription only two simple sacrifices are called for: the burnt offering (the complete consumption by fire of an animal victim), signifying the worshiper's homage to the god - ness of God; and the peace offering, a joyous, religious, communion meal celebrating the full three - member relationship of the Covenant by enacting the oneness at the common board of the Lord with his people, and his people with each other.
As we saw in the discussion of the Old Testament, the Apocalypse was a common literary form employed, usually, in times of stress and strain, to bring some hope and encouragement to people who were having a bad time of it.
Spelt is a species of wheat much more common in ancient and medieval times but newly popular as some people look to explore older varieties of common foodstuffs and others feel that health benefits may accrue from avoiding some varieties of wheat in favor of others.
While we think nothing of giving infants milk from a different species — a cow — the prospect of sharing human milk gives many people the willies, and I've heard the age - old practice, still common in many cultures, described as «gross, sick, twisted and overboard.»
A 2 - year - old should be able to identify common objects (in person and in pictures); point to eyes, ears, or nose when asked; and follow two - step commands («Please pick up the toy and give it to me,» for example).
Most people imagine newborn babies to be bald or close to it, but it is quite common for babies to be born with a good amount of hair even if they do lose it as they get older before it grows in again.
In common with agrowing number of older voters, what young people don't care about is the sort of politics that you and I rather like - the knockabout, the earnest discussions, the thrill of electoral organisation and campaigning.
(Anything since 9/11 probably qualifies as current - day sentiment) Also, is approval of internment more common in conservatives and older people?
The onset of OSA is most common in people aged 35 to 54 years old, although it can affect people of all ages, including children.
Elected houses have to pander to the public, the public are generally stupid; in return for a vote politicians set aside all petty considerations (like the law, morality, basic human decency and common sense) and pass stupid, kneejerk, dangerous laws (the only people to disagree with Her Majesty's government passing dangerous laws in the name of anti-terrorism were a bunch of out - of - touch 90 - year - old judges, who have been replaced by a tame political supreme court).
It is common to hear people make the comforting prediction that soon the older Mr Miliband, who is only 45, will head off and seek a top international job, either in Brussels or in America.
The common - sense principle is a simple one: Convicted politicians should not grow old comfortably cushioned by a pension paid for by the very people they betrayed in office.»
This is especially likely in older people, in whom dementia is more common and not often investigated after death.
Aortic stenosis is a common disease, particularly among people 75 and older, in which one of the valves of the heart narrows and impedes blood flow to the body.
«There is this idea that younger generations like feedback, and that in the older generations it was not as common — but I find that people want this no matter their age.»
The «old friends hypothesis» proposes that the human immune system can not learn to regulate itself without exposure to common pathogens like helminths that have coevolved with people and that modern hygienic practices deprive people of this necessary exposure, possibly explaining the relatively higher and more recent prevalence of immune diseases in industrialized countries like the U.S. Loke plans to continue researching helminthic therapy in people and in monkeys.
The condition is more common in men than women and in older people, with the average age of diagnosis at 68.
«Despite DLB being one of the most common forms of dementia in older people, until now there simply hasn't been enough information on its causes, so the finding that up to 36 % of cases might be genetically inherited is a real revelation.
If it turns out that vaccinated people lose their immunity as they get older, that could leave them vulnerable to measles outbreaks seeded by unvaccinated people — which are increasingly common in the United States and other developed countries.
«A common complaint is that older people have to work twice as hard with their diets and exercise to get half of the results of younger people,» said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor - in - Chief of The FASEB Journal.
Anaphylaxis to foods is more common in young people whereas severe reactions in older people are more commonly triggered by insect venom.
Cataracts are very common, particularly in older people.
The condition is the most common cause of severe vision loss in people age 50 and older in developed countries.
A common variant of the p16 (INK4a) genetic region is associated with physical function in older people.
Plasma cell neoplasms are most common in people who are middle aged or older.
Most aim to treat macular degeneration, a common disorder among older people in which blurriness starts at the center of the visual field and produces a permanent blank spot.
activation of NK cells / monocytes in elderly While the researchers found people older than 65 tended to have weaker antibody responses to vaccination, there were common elements of molecular signatures that predicted strong antibody responses in younger and older volunteers. However, elderly volunteers tended to have stronger signatures from immune cells that are not directly involved in producing antibodies (monocytes and â $ ˜natural killerâ $ ™ cells), both at baseline and after vaccination.
Background: Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), which is defined as the presence of an expanded somatic blood - cell clone in persons without other hematologic abnormalities, is common among older persons and is associated with an increased risk of hematologic cancer.
Extremely high doses of vitamin D were most common among a few specific groups: In the last year of the study, 4.2 % of women, 3.9 % of non-Hispanic white people, and 6.6 % of adults 70 and older reported taking at least 4,000 IU a day.
Dry skin is especially common in older folks or people who smoke, spend too much time in the sun, or overuse skin products.
These types of cognitive issues are more common in people 65 and older.
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