Medicine - Table of Contents

December 8, 2023

Association between osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease in elderly people: evidence from a retrospective study

Xiaoying Hu, Shucan Ma, Liman Chen, Chunhui Tian, Weiwei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16546 PubMed 38089913

December 6, 2023

Prevalence and risk factors for falls among community-dwelling adults in Riyadh area

Aqeel M. Alenazi, Maram F. Alanazi, Ragab K. Elnaggar, Mohammed M. Alshehri, Bader A. Alqahtani, Ahmed S. Alhowimel, Norah A. Alhwoaimel, Ahmad D. Alanazi, Mazyad A. Alotaibi, Sattam M. Almutairi, Mohammed S. Alghamdi, Saad M. Bindawas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16478 PubMed 38077414

December 11, 2023

Feasibility of using chest computed tomography (CT) imaging at the first lumbar vertebra (L1) level to assess skeletal muscle mass: a retrospective study

Shaohua Liu, Xia Han, Jianjun Li, Xia Xie, Yunkai Yang, Wangyan Jiang, Li Liu, Zhelong Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16652 PubMed 38099314

December 14, 2023

Multi-modal sleep intervention for community-dwelling people living with dementia and primary caregiver dyads with sleep disturbance: protocol of a single-arm feasibility trial

Sumedha Verma, Prerna Varma, Aimee Brown, Bei Bei, Rosemary Gibson, Tom Valenta, Ann Pietsch, Marina Cavuoto, Michael Woodward, Susan McCurry, Melinda L. Jackson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16543 PubMed 38107589

December 12, 2023

Involvement of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in p300/p53-mediated age-related atrial fibrosis

Yingyu Lai, Jintao He, Xiaoyan Gao, Dewei Peng, Huishan Zhou, Yuwen Xu, Xueshan Luo, Hui Yang, Mengzhen Zhang, Chunyu Deng, Shulin Wu, Yumei Xue, Feng Zhou, Fang Rao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16545 PubMed 38107584

December 8, 2023

Upper extremity kinematics: development of a quantitative measure of impairment severity and dissimilarity after stroke

Khadija F. Zaidi, Michelle Harris-Love

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16374 PubMed 38089910

December 21, 2023

Relationship between walking speed, respiratory muscle strength, and dynamic balance in community-dwelling older people who required long-term care or support and used a daycare center

Takumi Jiroumaru, Yutaro Hyodo, Michio Wachi, Nobuko Shichiri, Junko Ochi, Takamitsu Fujikawa

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16630 PubMed 38144200