Sentences with phrase «elderly participants with»

We prospectively recruited 731 elderly participants with hip fracture in two Leeds hospitals.

In one of these studies, 9 elderly participants with mild cognitive impairment consumed blueberry juice every day.

He added that the purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between OSA severity and changes in AD biomarkers longitudinally, specifically whether amyloid deposits increase over time in healthy elderly participants with OSA.

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«Thus, even though the 72 % decrease in pneumonia risk with vitamin E in ATBC participants who quit smoking may be a real effect, it should not be generalized to current elderly males in Western countries.

The study assessed the prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with physical performance in 1000 elderly Japanese participants (349 men and 651 women aged ≥ 65 years) enrolled in the Research on Osteoarthritis / Osteoporosis Against Disability (ROAD) Study.

The participants were community - dwelling and independently - living elderly (n = 956, 80 years old) excluding those with dementia.

Recently, Baccarelli et al250 have shown among 718 elderly participants in the Normative Aging Study that short - term exposures (over 1 to 7 days) to PM2.5 and black carbon are associated with decreased «global» DNA methylation in long interspersed nucleotide elements.

According to a study from 2006 on 80 elderly patients, study participants with the lowest levels of vitamin D were 11 times more likely to be depressed than the study participants with the highest vitamin D levels.

One 2009 study revealed that as many as 50 % of elderly individuals with dementia were a victim of some kind of abuse, and a 2010 study found that 47 % of participants with dementia had been mistreated by their caregivers (NCEA).

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Singlehandedly led a group of elderly campers through a programs involving both physical and mental activities • Created, implemented and led 5 groups of children with special needs, resulting in increased confidence on the participants» end • Stopped a potentially harmful situation involving a bear attack, quickly warding off danger by distracting the beast • Wrote a manual on basic camp activities, now used as the main source of educational material for all camp participants

In line with the definition of empty nest, 25 participants who had no children were excluded from the study, while the remaining 814 elderly adults with at least one child were included for analysis.

We used EHCs as recruitment sites because they provide health - related information that can be used for eligibility screening purposes, and their clients are usually willing to participate in health - related studies endorsed by the Department of Health, HKSAR.37 Although EHCs» clients are representative of the general population of older adults in terms of age and SES, 37 they tend to be more health conscious.38 To examine the potential bias (better mental health) associated with recruiting participants from the EHCs, we recruited approximately 30 % of the sample (n = 258) from elderly community centres with no formal provision of medical and health services.

Since there are indications that elderly people experience less negative affect (Carstensen, Fung, & Charles, 2003; Charles, Reynolds, & Gatz, 2001), we expect that studies with younger participants will find more fluctuations in negative affect.