Sentences with phrase «elderly healthy controls»

Hye and his colleagues analysed 26 proteins in blood from 1,148 people, including 476 people with Alzheimer's, 220 with mild cognitive impairment and 452 elderly healthy controls.

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The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.

To estimate this prevalence, this study compared the frequency of ICDs in elderly Parkinson's disease patients and healthy controls.