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changes occur that can place one at risk for sleep disturbance including increased prevalence of
medical conditions, increased ...
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on health, it is important to pay special attention to
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key point when decisions are made about introducing and/or continuing such treatments in
the individual elderly patient. In order to maximise the safety of anticoagulation in the
elderly, ... years), the only item independently associated with the likelihood of not
receiving VKAs in the multivariate analysis was increasing age. No other single factor, includi...
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community. N Engl J Med 1994;331:821-7.
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combine to change the likelihood of falling in the elderly
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time near term in the sheep (5). In the human, there is ... of serotonin-containing cells
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decreased during sleep. Ente...
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considered as a distinct disease entity.
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can lead to a delay in the diagnosis of TB in the elderly,
which in turn, can lead to an increase in the ... symptoms in elderly patients
with TB. This results in a delay in the presentation of the
elderly to health care facilities, thereby resulting in a
delay in...
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