Relation of bone mineral density with fat infiltration of paraspinal muscles: The Goutallier classification.

Objectives: Muscle and bone tissue are interrelated throughout their developmental processes via paracrine and endocrine pathways. Osteosarcopenia has emerged with the growing data proving the high rate of simultaneous occurrence of sarcopenia and osteoporosis. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between osteoporosis, and muscle quality by grading the fatty infiltration in paraspinal muscles according to the Goutallier classification in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Depression in frail older adults: Associations and gender difference.

Objective: Depression is highly prevalent in frail older adults and both clinical situations share similar clinical and prognostic factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between frailty and depression by considering each component of frailty, in both genders.

Methods: Six hundred and forty-one patients aged 60 years and older, admitted to a Geriatrics outpatient clinic in a tertiary hospital, were included in this cross-sectional study.

Validation of the five-item version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-5) in a Turkish elderly population.

Background: Late-life depression is a geriatric syndrome which should be taken seriously. Many clinical scales have been developed for the screening of geriatric depression. Most of these have been validated at different times and in diverse populations.

Risk of sarcopenia in hospitalized patients and related clinical factors: a multicenter study from Turkey.

Purpose: To investigate the risk of sarcopenia in hospitalized older patients and to assess the associations between sarcopenia risk and health care outcomes including dependency, malnutrition, and dysphagia.

Methods: This multicenter cross-sectional study was a part of the annual National Prevalence Measurement of Quality of Care (LPZ) in Turkey. Hospitalized patients age 65 and older were included in the study.

Influence of Conventional Complete Dentures and Different Attachment Types in Implant-Supported Overdentures on Quality of Life and Nutritional Status in Edentulous Geriatric Patients.

Purpose: To determine whether the use of implant-supported overdentures (IODs) with different attachments influences the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI) scores in edentulous patients > 65 years of age.

Materials And Methods: The MNA and GOHAI were administered to 54 edentulous patients > 65 years of age (mean age = 68.35 ± 4.

Relationship Between Dysphagia and Sarcopenia with Comprehensive Geriatric Evaluation.

Oropharyngeal dysphagia has features of geriatric syndromes and is strongly associated with sarcopenia. In this cross-sectional study, we aimed to evaluate the association between dysphagia and sarcopenia, in a practical way, accompanied by comprehensive geriatric assessment. Dysphagia and sarcopenia were defined by the EAT-10 and SARC-F questionnaires, respectively.

Effects of Ramadan fasting on lean body mass in the older people.

Purpose: In Islam, Ramadan fasting is a unique model that is associated with the restriction of food and fluid intake. We aimed to estimate the physiological effects of Ramadan fasting on muscle function and muscle mass in the older people.

Methods: A random sample was recruited from healthy older Muslims people aged 60 years and older, who expressed an intention to fast for 30 days during the month of Ramadan.

Frailty in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: Associations with Disability and Timed Up and Go.

Introduction: Aim of this study was identify the prevalence of frailty in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD), to describe the relationship between severity of the disease and frailty, and to evaluate if timed up and go (TUG) is an eligible test for determination of frailty in idiopathic PD patients.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study which included 66 patients, aged 60 and over in a tertiary hospital. Frailty was assessed by the Fried Frailty Index (FFI).

Sarcopenia, dynapenia, and body composition in Parkinson's disease: are they good predictors of disability?: a case-control study.

Background/aim: To assess sarcopenia and dynapenia and their relationship with disease severity and disabilities in PD and to state body composition in PD.

Methods: We conducted a case-control, cross-sectional study that included 70 patients with idiopathic PD and 85 controls. Sarcopenia was defined according to the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) criteria.

Validity of simplified nutritional appetite questionnaire for Turkish community-dwelling elderly and determining cut-off according to mini nutritional assessment.

Background/objectives: The aim of this study was to determine a cut-off value for the SNAQ according to both the MNA long and MNA short forms and to assess whether the SNAQ can predict malnutrition or risk of malnutrition in the elderly.

Subjects/methods: Nutritional status was assessed both by the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) long and short forms. All demographic characteristics, mental status, depressive mood, functional status, and frailty were determined.

Relation of RANKL and OPG Levels with Bone Resorption in Patients with Acromegaly and Prolactinoma.

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of hyperprolactinemia and high levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) on bone resorption and their relation with receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL) and osteoprotegerin (OPG) in patients with prolactinoma and acromegaly. Thirty-one patients with acromegaly, 28 patients with prolactinoma, and 33 healthy individuals were included in the study. Serum concentrations of RANKL, OPG, bone alkaline phosphatase (bone ALP), osteocalcin (OC), C-terminal telopeptide of type 1 collagen (CTX), procollagen type 1 N-terminal propeptide (P1NP) and urine deoxypyridinoline (DPD) levels were detected and bone mineral density (BMD) was measured.