Publications by authors named "Hannelore Vandewinckele"
Objectives: To determine the association between frailty and short-term mortality in older adults hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Design: Retrospective single-center observational study.
Setting And Participants: Eighty-one patients with COVID-19 confirmed by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), at the Geriatrics department of a general hospital in Belgium.
Objective: The study aim is to determine the relationship between the prevalence of colorectal cancer and iron status in elderly anemic and non-anemic patients.
Methods: We retrospectively investigated 359 consecutive elderly patients, aged 70 years and more, who presented to a geriatric department and who underwent a total colonoscopy. The histopathologic diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was the primary outcome measure, and its presence was compared with the iron status, evaluated by serum ferritin and hemoglobin levels.