Contents
Geriatrics and Gerontolog y International Volume 19 Issue 11, November 2019
EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PRACTICE
AND HEALTH
Treatment patterns of antihypertensive fixed-dose
combinations according to age and number of agents
prescribed: Retrospective analysis using a Japanese
claims database
T Ishida et al.
Which factors are associated with length of stay inolder patients with acute decompensated heart failure
with preserved ejection fraction?: AURORA study
M Nishino et al.
Impact of age on survival of patients with out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest transported to tertiary emergency
medical institutions in Osaka, JapanF Nakamura et al.
Dementia in China (2015–2050) estimated using the1% population sampling survey in 2015
Y-Q Wang et al.
Efficacy of pharmacists’ assessment and intervention
based on Screening Tool for Older Persons’ Appropriate
Prescriptions for Japanese compared with Screening
Tool for Older Persons’ Appropriate Prescriptions
for Japanese criteria version 2 in older patients withcardiovascular disease
T Kimura et al.
Prospective clinical trial evaluating vulnerability andchemotherapy risk using geriatric assessment tools
in older patients with lung cancer
Y Tsubata et al.
Inadequate empirical antimicrobial treatment in olderpeople with bacteremic urinary tract infection who
reside in nursing homes: A multicenter prospective
observational study
AB Gómez Belda et al.
Investigator-initiated clinical study of a functional
peptide, SR-0379, for limb ulcers of patients with
Werner syndrome as a pilot study
H Nakagami et al.
Sarcopenia as a predictor of activities of daily living
capability in stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation
T Matsushita et al.
Factors affecting reversion from mild cognitive
impairment to normal cognition in midlife to later
life in Korea: A national population study
AR Jang and JY Yoon

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Relationship between oral environment and developmentof pneumonia and acute viral respiratory infection
in dependent older individuals
H Tashiro et al.
Multivariate analysis of factors related to the absence ofmusculoskeletal degenerative disease in middle-aged
and older people
S Imagama et al.
Effect of walking on depression prevalence for diabetes
using information communication technology:
Prospective study
T Yamashita et al.
Chronic pain is independently associated with social
frailty in community-dwelling older adults
T Hirase et al.

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SOCIAL RESEARCH, PLANNING
AND PRACTICE

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Urban–rural differences in multimorbidity and associatedfactors in China and Korea: A population-based
survey study
JY Yi et al.

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BIOLOGY
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Prevalence and clinical impact of snoring in older
community-dwelling adults
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H Wada et al.
SARC-F: A validation study with community-dwellingolder Japanese adults
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T Kera et al.
Aging is independently associated with an increasing
normal respiratory rate among an older adult population
in a clinical setting: A cross-sectional study
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A Takayama et al.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORCASE REPORT
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Adverse motor effects of progressive supranuclear
palsy with frontal lobe signs: A case report
K Kunitoki et al.

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RESEARCH STUDIES
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Correlation between the Barthel Index and care needlevels in the Japanese long-term care insurance system
T Matsuda et al.

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