Contents
Geriatrics and Gerontolog y International Volume 19 Issue 10, October 2019
EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PRACTICE
AND HEALTH
Serum albumin/globulin ratio is associated with cognitive
function in community-dwelling older people:
The Septuagenarians, Octogenarians, Nonagenarians
Investigation with Centenarians study
S Maeda et al.
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Continued social participation protects against depressive
symptoms across the retirement transition: Longitudinalevidence from three waves of the China Health andRetirement Longitudinal Survey
H Liu et al.
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Association between dysphagia risk and unplanned
hospitalization in older patients receiving home
medical care
K Watanabe et al.
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Dimensions underlying frailty indicators in the Kihon
Checklist
T Sentandreu-Mañó et al.
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Prognostic significance of red cell distribution width in
hospitalized older patients with heart failure or infection
K Nakashima et al.
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Impact of edema on length of calf circumferencein older adults
Y Ishida et al.
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Quality of life in cognitively impaired older adults
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V Bonfiglio, H Umegaki and M Kuzuya
Effect of long-term clarithromycin therapy on preventionof pneumonia in older adults: A randomized,
controlled trial
M Yamasue et al.
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Association of weak hip abduction strength with nocturia
in older women: The Nagahama study
Y Tabara et al.
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Relationship among urinary advanced glycation-end
products, skeletal muscle mass and physical performancein community-dwelling older adults
C-W Yang et al.
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Increase in direct social care costs of Alzheimer’s diseasein Japan depending on dementia severity
H Takechi et al.
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Assessing hypoglycemia frequency using flash glucose
monitoring in older Japanese patients withtype 2 diabetes receiving oral hypoglycemic agents
H Abe et al.
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Association of serum cystatin C with white matter
abnormalities in patients with amnestic mild cognitive
impairment
K Hirao et al.
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BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Reclassified cognitive leisure activity and risk of cognitive
impairment in Chinese older adults aged ≥80 years:
A 16-year prospective cohort study
J Qiu et al.

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SOCIAL RESEARCH, PLANNING
AND PRACTICE
Association between post-discharge secondary care andrisk of repeated hospital presentation, entry into long-termcare and mortality in older people after acutehospitalization
Z Wu et al.
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BIOLOGY
Age-associated proteomic alterations in human aorticmedia
Y Miura et al.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORCASE REPORT
Successful treatment with gilteritinib for initially FMS-liketyrosine kinase 3 gene internal tandem duplications-positive
elderly refractory acute myeloid leukemia that changed
into FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 gene tyrosine kinasedomain-positive after cord blood transplantation
D Akahane et al.
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RESEARCH STUDIES
Development of the Positive Photo Appreciation for
Dementia program for people with mild cognitive
impairment and early-stage Alzheimer’s disease:
A feasibility study
M Ishihara et al.
Amyloid burden in diabetes-related dementia
N Takenoshita et al.
Validation study on a Japanese version of the three-item
UCLA Loneliness Scale among community-dwellingolder adults
T Saito et al.
Determining caregiver burden using new technologies
for informal caregivers of people with dementia:
A systematic review
K Kajiwara et al.

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