Contents
Geriatrics and Gerontolog y International Volume 19 Issue 8, August 2019
REVIEW ARTICLE
Era of geriatric medical challenges: Multimorbidity
among older patients
M Kuzuya

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EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PRACTICE AND
HEALTH
Does transpersonal trust moderate the association between
chronic conditions and general practitioner visits
in the oldest old? Results of the AgeCoDe andAgeQualiDe study
A Hajek et al.
705
Social determinants of the association among
cerebrovascular disease, hearing loss and cognitive
impairment in a middle-aged or older population:
Recurrent neural network analysis of the KoreanLongitudinal Study of Aging (2014–2016)
K-S Lee and KW Park
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Effect of watching professional baseball at a stadium
on health-related outcomes among Japanese older adults:
A randomized controlled trial
R Kawakami et al.
717
Prevalence of frailty status among the European elderly
population: Findings from the Survey of Health,Aging and Retirement in Europe
G Manfredi et al.
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Polypharmacy and gait speed in individuals with mild
cognitive impairment
H Umegaki et al.
730
Gait asymmetry assessment for older adults by measuring
circular gait speedN Ichihashi et al.
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Alcohol consumption and incident dementia in older
Japanese adults: The Okayama StudyY Liu et al.
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Associations between self-reported hearing loss andoutdoor activity limitations, psychological distress andself-reported memory loss among older people: Analysisof the 2016 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditionsin Japan
M Iwagami et al.
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Taking metformin and cognitive function change in older
patients with diabetes
BK Koo et al.
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Diagnosis of postoperative delirium in older adults using
the Confusion Assessment Method for the intensive careunit in non-intensive care unit settings: A test modification
might improve its diagnostic performance
T Wongviriyawong et al.
762
Efficacy of a newly developed auditory–cognitive training
system on speech recognition, central auditory processing
and cognitive ability among older adults with normal
cognition and with neurocognitive impairment
Y Yusof et al.
768
Spouse’s functional disability and mortality: The Ohsaki
Cohort 2006 Study
T Sone et al.
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Reference range of clinical blood tests in physicallyindependent patients of advanced age with groin
hernia in a Japanese hospital
M Matsuo and K Tazawa
Older adults are prioritized in terms of waiting time underthe emergency triage system in Guangzhou, China
W Pan et al.
Association between decrease in frequency of going out andoral function in older adults living in major urban areas
Y Mikami et al.
Diabetes, arthritis, urinary incontinence, poor self-rated
health, higher body mass index and lower handgrip
strength are associated with falls among communitydwelling middle-aged and older adults: Pooled analyses
from two cross-sectional Malaysian datasets
DKA Singh et al.
Relationship between blood coagulability and senseof burden among caregivers of patients with dementia
A Hirano et al.
Development of the Barthel Index 5 years after hip fracture:
Results of a prospective study
T Knauf et al.
Factors of post-stroke dementia: A nationwide cohort study
in Taiwan
C-H Li et al.

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BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Functional training in postmenopause: Cardiac autonomic
modulation and cardiorespiratory parameters,a randomized trial
MPC Rezende Barbosa et al.

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SOCIAL RESEARCH, PLANNING AND
PRACTICE
Care preferences of healthy, middle-aged adults in Japanand the USA if they acquired dementia: A cross-sectional
observational study
M Nakanishi et al.

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BIOLOGY
Quantitative evaluation of age-related changes to pelvic
floor muscles in magnetic resonance images from369 patients
Y Komemushi et al.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORCOMMENTS
Post-intensive care unit respiratory failure in older patients:
Can we predict intensive care unit discharge properly?
P Ruggeri et al.
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Authors’ reply to comments on “Post-intensive care unit
respiratory failure in older patients liberated from
intensive care unit and ventilator”
Y-C Chen et al.
839
Neprilysin inhibitors and chest pain perception in acute
myocardial infarction
E Siniorakis et al.
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