Publications by authors named "D Heitz"
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- The study looks at how frailty affects older people with severe kidney disease who are waiting for a kidney transplant.
- Researchers used a method called intrinsic capacity (IC) to check for frailty, which can help predict health problems.
- They found that issues in movement, mental health, and energy levels were linked to being frail, and these findings were confirmed by looking at other patients too.
Objective: Mammographic screening and management of breast cancer (BC) in elderly women are controversial and continue to be an important health problem. To investigate, through members of the Senologic International Society (SIS), the current global practices in BC in elderly women, highlighting topics of debate and suggesting perspectives.
Materials And Methods: The questionnaire was sent to the SIS network and included 55 questions on definitions of an elderly woman, BC epidemiology, screening, clinical and pathological characteristics, therapeutic management in elderly women, onco-geriatric assessment and perspectives.
The dataset contains Eulerian velocity and pressure fields, and Lagrangian particle trajectories of the wake flow downstream of a smooth cylinder at a Reynolds number equal to 3900. An open source Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) flow solver named Incompact3d was used to calculate the Eulerian field around the cylinder. The synthetic Lagrangian tracer particles were transported using a fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme in time and trilinear interpolations in space.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The prognostic assessment of older cancer patients is complicated by their heterogeneity. We aimed to assess the prognostic value of routine inflammatory biomarkers.
Methods: A pooled analysis of prospective multicenter cohorts of cancer patients aged ≥70 was performed.
Article Synopsis
- A study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence and risk factors of cachexia (a condition involving significant weight loss) in older cancer patients, as well as its impact on 6-month mortality rates.
- The research surveyed 1,030 patients aged 70 and older across 55 geriatric oncology clinics in France, revealing that over half of the participants (52%) met the criteria for cachexia.
- Factors linked to higher rates of cachexia included specific cancer types (like colorectal cancer), prior surgeries, presence of metastases, poor performance status, low food intake, cognitive issues, and potential depression, with those having cachexia experiencing a higher mortality risk within 6 months.