[PDF] Top 20 The prevalence of subjective frailty and factors associated with frailty in Taiwan

... that the use of specific drugs, such as digitalis, diuretics, other cardiovascular drugs, hypnotics, sedatives, analgesics, and laxatives, was related to impaired quality of life (Jensen et ... See full document

... To the Editor: Frailty is considered to confer a high risk for adverse health outcomes, including disability, falls, hospitalization and ...1-3 The overall prevalence of ... See full document

... purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the elderly?s health capital factors on subjective ...Through the use of cohort perspectives and panel ... See full document

... to the investigation of the Department of Health in 2007, there are 2890 thousand people who aged 18 or above with the metabolic ...syndrome. The aims of ... See full document

... problem in many countries. Most of the available information is incomplete or limited to special groups such as people with intellectual ...disability. The present study aims to provide ... See full document

... The study hypothesized that after controlling for gender, age, and self-esteem, meetings with family members while in care, feelings toward such meetings, support received from workers[r] ... See full document

... indicator of both poor nutrition and poor health (de Benoist et ...mental and physical development in children (Lozoff, 1989; Lozoff et ...assessed the anemia provision for the ... See full document

... purpose of this research is to investigate the utilization of health examination and its related factors for the elderly over 60 in Taiwan and to make policy ... See full document

... number of limitations should be noted in interpreting the results of this ...that the cross-sectional design of the study does not allow for any prospective conclusion on ... See full document

... practitioners of folk therapy are not licensed and cannot verify that their therapy has any definite medical effects ...choices, and treatment-seeking behaviors in a multivariate logistic ... See full document

... investigate the prevalence of and risk factors associated with tobacco smoking of vocational school students in ...fishery/agricultural, and medical ... See full document

... for prevalence estimates were calculated using the normal approximation or exact binomial methods as ...age and sex associations with drusen and early AMD ...outcomes. The ... See full document

... at the cost of sleep because of the diversity activities which is the most common reason in this ...group. The purpose of this study is to investigate the ... See full document

... cross-sectional and could not demon- strate causal relationships. As described in the “Results” section, participants in BOSS had significantly higher odds of a parental history ... See full document

... improvement in major os- teoporotic fracture prediction was seen by using lumbar spine TBS in combination with FRAX ...probability. The improvement in risk classification does not ... See full document

... examines the related factors associated with injuries in Taiwan by using the cross-sectional study design and secondary data set of 2005 Survey of ... See full document

... quality of life and plays a vital role in the recovery and conservation of ...energy. In recent years, the healthcare industry in Taiwan has undergone ... See full document

... educate the people around them to facilitate a better understanding of both their illness and their efforts to adapt to living within the ...contribution of the present study is ... See full document

... examined the helath examination utilization among the elderly 65 and older and it?s determinants at both micro and macro level of ...analysis. The data were derived from ... See full document

... occurs with advancing age. This problem is increasingly being recognized in the ...1 The European Wording Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) proposed an algorithm for ... See full document