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Forty-year coronary mortality trends and changes in major risk factors in the first 10 years of follow-up in the seven countries study.

Τime trends in coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality during a 40-year follow-up were studied in the Seven Countries Study. Thirteen cohorts of men aged 40-59 at entry were enrolled in seven countries (USA, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Serbia, Greece and

EUROASPIRE IV: A European Society of Cardiology survey on the lifestyle, risk factor and therapeutic management of coronary patients from 24 European countries

EUROASPIRE IV was a cross-sectional study undertaken at 78 centres from 24 European countries. Patients 80 years with coronary disease who had coronary artery bypass graft, percutaneous coronary intervention or an acute coronary syndrome were identified from hospital records and

Diagnostic approach to osteoporosis

The aim of this study was to review the most modern ways to diagnose osteoporosis. The methodology followed included the search for anecdotal and research studies on the diagnosis of osteoporosis. The number of osteoporotic patients is high, as is

Ageing research in Greece.

Ageing research in Greece is well established. Research groups located in universities, research institutes or public hospitals are studying various and complementary aspects of ageing. These research activities include (a) functional analysis of Clusterin/ Apolipoprotein J, studies in healthy centenarians

The epidemiology of cataract: a study in Greece

We identified certain possible risk factors for age-related cataract. In a Mediterranean Greek population, we found that smoking, use of cortisone drops, cardiovascular heart disease and sunlight exposure increase the risk for cataract, while the use of a hat and

Cardiovascular risk factors and dementia mortality: 40 years of follow-up in the Seven Countries Study.

Previous research shows that cardiovascular risk factors in mid-adulthood could increase the risk of dementia later in life, but studies with a very long follow-up are still scarce. We assessed whether cardiovascular risk factors measured in midlife were associated with

Study of the effect of precipitating genes in cognitive disorders after aorto-coronary by pass

The study deals with the subject of cognitive decline after coronary artery surgery and with the putative role of certain genetic polymorphisms to the genesis of this postoperative complication. These polymorphisms of the genes APOE, SOAT-1 APOE- promoter, ch25h_1/LIPA, olr,

The FRAX algorithm: a new tool in osteoporosis

FRAX™, is an algorithm that contributes to the detection of patients at high risk to suffer fractures. It is a model that computes the absolute ten-year probability for fracture for every individual patient, based on clinical risk factors, independently of

Factors that affect cognitive functions in older people

Introduction: one of the most important public health issues of our time is population aging. This results, among other problems, in an increase in cases of cognitive decline. Dementia, most commonly Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia, is the most frequent

The prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers

The prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers constitute a more major clinical problem of great concern for healthprofessionals. Ulcers require increased nursing care, delay recovery, extend the duration of hospitalization, increase the cost of hospitalization and also increase mortality. The