In adults undergoing hip fracture surgery, neuraxial anesthesia may lead to better outcomes than general anesthesia, with ...

Waking up in the morning, my legs feel unusually heavy. Foods I usually enjoy no longer appeal to me. Lately, I’ve been ...

Discover how oral frailty is identified as an early warning sign of physical decline and learn about strategies to prevent ...

Published in BMC Medicine, the study analyzed data from over 150,000 participants and found the strongest associations in ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) in older adults extends well beyond stroke prevention. Advancing age is the strongest demographic driver of AF prevalence and ...

Frailty refers to an inability to completely bounce back and recover from events like illness and injury; it is not an unavoidable part of ageing. — dpa Frailty refers to a person’s mental and ...

Researchers at McMaster University have identified, for the first time, a novel region of DNA and two associated genes ...

Frailty — a clinical syndrome characterized by decreased physiological reserve and increased vulnerability to stressors — has traditionally been associated with geriatric medicine but has profound ...

Being obese may lead to a lower likelihood of death among elderly people with deteriorated mental and physical conditions called frailty, a team of researchers has found. Those free from the ...