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... 23 . Association AD. Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes. Diabetes Care 20 05 ;28 (suppl_1):S4-S36. 24 . Sigal RJ, Kenny GP, Wasserman DH, Castaneda-Sceppa C. Physical activity/ exercise and type ... resistance exercise training to improve glycemic control inolderadultswithtype2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 20 02; 25( 12) :23 35-41. 15. Ivy JL. Role of exercise training in the prevention and treatment ... on each machine at baseline (prior to randomization), and once at 16 weeks. Baseline and final muscle strength was calculated as the sum of 1RM measures for all machines used for training....
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... 20 08 ;2( 1): 42- 45Memory loss is one of the most common complaints arising in consultations with elderly people, being reported by 25 % to 50% of these individuals.1 However, whether these subjective memory complaints (SMC) are related to objective memory deficits or to subsequent development of dementia, remains a matter of debate. A recent review found that SMCs are not consistently associated with current cognitive impairment, but rather are associated witha greater risk of future cognitive de-cline. 2 Indeed, the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which entails an increased likelihood of conversion to dementia, demands the existence of SMCs, preferably confirmed by an informant.3High age, female gender and low educational level are generally associated witha higher prevalence of memory complaints.1 In an autopsy study, SMCs were found to be related to the presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathol-ogy in elderly with and without dementia, suggesting that memory complaints inolder persons may be a sign of self awareness ofa degenerative process.4However, SMCs might also be related to depression and some personality traits, such as neuroticism. 2 It is also pos-sible that these complaints vary according to the culture of the people studied. Ina recent Brazilian study, Minett et al. found that subjects with and without SMCs performed similarly ina series of cognitive tests, although the former had higher scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale.5The present study aimed to further investigate this topic in a group of cognitively healthy Brazilian elderly subjects which were divided into two subgroups according to the presence of SMCs and submitted to brief cognitive tests.MethodsSixty cognitively intact elderly individuals (39 females and 21 males), aged 69.9±6.3 years (ranging from 60 to 91 years), and with mean educational level of 8.5±5.5 years (ranging from 1 to 20 years), were included in the study. These individuals were family caregivers of demented pa-tients followed at the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil, and also volunteers recruited from the community.Inclusion criteria were absence of neurological or psy-chiatric diseases according to a clinical interview, absence of depression (see below), and no use of benzodiazepines, antidepressants or neuroleptics. All participants were submitted to the Mini-Mental State-Examination (MMSE)6,7 and to the Cornell scale of depression.8,9 Performance on the MMSE was adjusted for educational level and had to be greater than or equal to 21 for 1-3 years of schooling, greater than or equal to 24 for 4-7 years and greater than or equal to 26 for individuals with 8 or more years of schooling.10 Scores on the Cornell scale of depression had to be less than or equal to 7 points in order to rule out depression.8Cognitive evaluation was carried out with the follow-ing tests: the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (BCSB)11, 12 , digit span forward and backward and the Frontal Assess-ment Battery (FAB).13,14 The BCSB includes a memory test of 10 simple figures and yields different scores, namely: incidental and immediate memory, learning, delayed recall and recognition.15,16 The battery also includes a category fluency test (animals per minute) and clock drawing and has proven very sensitive in the diagnosis of mild AD. 12 The FAB is a brief diagnostic instrument for the assessment of executive functions in patients with suspected frontal lobe syndrome.13All individuals were given a structured self-report memory questionnaire, the MAC-Q.17 This questionnaire was devised to assess age-related memory decline. It is composed by six questions related to memory function-ing in everyday situations (e.g., to remember a telephone number that he/she uses at least once a week) in which the subject is asked to compare and rate his/her current ability to when he/she was 40 years’ old. The total score on the MAC-Q ranges from 7 to 35, where greater scores in- dicate subjective memory loss. Scores greater than or equal to 25 have been found to be suggestive of age-associated memory impairment. Accordingly, in the present study, the individuals were divided into two groups: absence of SMCs (MAC-Q scores < ;25 ) and presence of SMCs (MAC-Q scores 25 ). The performance of the two groups on the different cognitive tests was compared.One of the authors administered the MMSE, the Cor-nell scale and the MAC-Q. Subsequently, the other inves-tigator, blinded to the subjects’ results for these three mea-sures, administered the cognitive evaluation.Descriptive analysis of the data and statistical compari-sons between the performances of the two groups on the different cognitive tests were carried out with MedCalc software. Student’s t-test was used for comparison of age, educational level and MMSE scores, as well as for the results of the other cognitive tests (digit span, BCSB and FAB). Chi-square was employed for comparing gender distribu-tion of the two groups. Level of significance was set at 0.05. The study was approved by the Research Ethics ... envelhecimento,memúria,cogniỗóo,testesneuropsicolúgicos.BehavioralandCognitiveNeurologyUnit,DepartmentofInternalMedicine,FacultyofMedicine,FederalUniversityofMinasGerais,BeloHorizonte,Brazil.Paulo Caramelli – Department of Internal Medicine / Faculty of Medicine / Federal University of Minas Gerais - Avenida Prof. Alfredo Balena, 190 / Room 24 6 - 30130-100 Belo Horizonte MG - Brazil. E-mail: caramelp@usp.brReceived 01/30 /20 08. Received in final form 02/ 19 /20 08. Accepted 02/ 19 /20 08. ... Dementia & Neuropsychologia 20 08 ;2( 1): 42- 45 42 Memory complaints and cognitive performance of healthy elderly Caramelli P, Beato RGSubjective memory complaints and cognitive performance ina sample...
... Charoenvisuthiwongs 2 and Rossamalin Shabunthom3Address: 1Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2 Department of Pharmacy Administration, ... Administration, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and 3Sawangdandin Crown Prince Hospital, Sakolnakorn, ThailandEmail: Phantipa Sakthong* - phantipa_sakthong@yahoo.com; ... Krabbe P, Ohinmaa A, Roset M, Sintonen H,Tsuchiya A, Williams A, Yfantopoulos J, De Charro F: A comparison of EQ-5D time trade-off values obtained in Germany, UnitedKingdom, Spain. In The measurement...
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... programme [in Modern Greek]. Pneumonologika Themata 20 06 :21 -23 .38. Mishima M, Oku Y, Muro S, Hirai T, Chin K, Ohi M, Nakagawa M, Fujita M, Sato K, Shimada K, Yamaoka S, Oda Y, Asai N, Sagawa Y, ... Lamela J, Sanchis J: Alexithymia: a relevant psychological variable in near-fatal asthma. Eur Respir J 20 06, 28 :29 6-3 02. 45. Kavoura P, Harikiopoulou M, Dumitru S, Theodorakopoulou E, Birba ... et al., Prevalence of alexithymia and its associa-tion with anxiety and depression inasampleof Greek chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) outpatients Annals of General Psychiatry 20 10,...
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... cocktail. The control was maintained ina standard incubator with 21 % O 2 . The normoxia data are the same as shown in Fig. 1 and are included here for comparison. Expression of miR -2 7a and miR -27 b ... increase in mature miR -2 7a and miR -27 b in the transfected preadipocytes. As shown in Fig. 2A, miR -2 7a, miR -27 b or an equimolar mixture of miR -2 7a and miR -27 b (miR2 7a ⁄ b) strongly inhibited adipogenicdifferentiation ... containing 10% fetal bovineserum. OP9 cells were grown in aMEM containing 20 %fetal bovine serum. C2C 12 cells were maintained in DMEMcontaining 10% fetal bovine serum.Adipogenic differentiation...