Tag: Seniors

Vaccine effectiveness 91 percent using strict controls in a population of adults aged 60 years or older

Vitamin D supplementation, with or without calcium, offers no benefit for preventing falls or fractures in community-dwelling seniors

Risks increased for peptic ulcer bleeding, uncomplicated peptic ulcer, lower GI bleeding, heart failure, HTN, CKD

Association differed by race and was only significant in older Black adults

Supplementation does not reduce risk among older adults who are not at high risk for type 2 diabetes

Authors call for clinicians to screen older adults

Significant increases seen in the number of prevalent cases, incident cases, disability-adjusted life years, deaths

Decline seen in global cognition, memory in adults aged at least 50 years

Likelihood of meeting guidelines higher among men, White non-Hispanics, those living in metropolitan areas

Findings particularly pronounced for those experiencing pandemic-related stressors