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| Geriatric medicine | | Author(s) | Marco Pahor, William B Applegate |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 315, no 7115, 25 October 1997 |
| Pages | pp 1071-1074 (BMJ Aging issue) |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Medical care ; Drugs ; Vitamins ; Hypertension ; Exercise ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | The primary aims of geriatric medicine are to relieve suffering in old people, and to increase the number of years free of disability that they can enjoy. This article focuses on interventions judged by the authors to be the most important ones dealt with in English language medical journals in the past two years. A 'lifetime' perspective is taken, to cover new studies whose subjects included middle aged people, because interventions are relevant to disorders related to ageing. Recent advances reviewed include: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; the role of antioxidant vitamins in reducing risk of heart disease and in slowing the processes underlying Alzheimer's disease; hypertension, and control of high systolic blood pressure in preventing stroke; and exercise and targeted home health care. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971118416 A |
| Classmark | CC: LK: LLD: CFE: CQQ: CEA: 3A:6KC * |
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