Visit-to-Visit Blood Pressure Variability Is Associated With Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia: The S.AGES Cohort.

To investigate the impact of visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure variability (BPV), diastolic BPV, mean arterial pressure variability, and pulse pressure variability on cognitive decline and incident dementia in noninstitutionalized patients aged ≥65 years. A total of 3319 subjects from the S.AGES (Sujets AGÉS-Aged Subjects) cohort underwent clinical examinations every 6 months during 3 years.

Sex Differences in the Occurrence of Major Clinical Events in Elderly People with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Followed up in the General Practice.

Aims: The main aim of the present work was to assess if sex influences the occurrence of major clinical events in elderly people with type 2 diabetes followed up in the primary care.

Methods: 983 subjects aged ≥65years with type 2 diabetes were included by 213 general practitioners and followed up prospectively for three years. Major clinical events were recorded every six month.

Gender-Related Differences in the Control of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Primary Care for Elderly Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Cohort Study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the association between gender and control of diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Methods: The sujets âgés cohort is an observational study whose main objective was to describe the real-life management of elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in France. Nine hundred eighty-three patients with diabetes (517 men and 466 women) were recruited by 213 general practitioners and were followed up prospectively every 6 months for 3 years.

Cardiovascular Drugs and Metformin Drug Dosage According to Renal Function in Non-Institutionalized Elderly Patients.

Adaptation of drug dosage to kidney function is a common problem in general practice. The aim was to describe adaptation of cardiovascular drugs and metformin according to renal function and its association with mortality with regard to metformin in a cohort of elderly patients. This was an ancillary study to the S.

Healthcare costs associated with elderly chronic pain patients in primary care.

Objective: This study aimed to estimate the total healthcare costs associated with elderly chronic pain (CP) patients, define cost-related factors in this population, and examine cost evolution over two years.

Method: This is an ancillary study from the CP S.AGE subcohort, including non-institutionalized patients aged over 65 suffering from CP.

Predicting falls in elderly patients with chronic pain and other chronic conditions.

Background: The aim was to identify fall predictors in elderly suffering from chronic pain (CP) and to test their applicability among patients with other chronic conditions.

Methods: 1,379 non-institutionalized patients aged 65 years and older who were suffering from CP (S.AGE CP sub-cohort) were monitored every 6 months for 1 year.

Association between Cardiovascular Drugs and Chronic Kidney Disease in Non-Institutionalized Elderly Patients.

Concern about the renal safety of commonly used cardiovascular drugs with demonstrated clinical benefit appears to be an obstacle to their use in the elderly. The objective was to describe the relationship between cardiovascular drugs and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in elderly individuals in the real-life setting. This is an ancillary study of the prospective non-interventional S.

Do male and female general practitioners differently prescribe chronic pain drugs to older patients?

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between general practitioner (GP) gender and prescribing practice of chronic pain drugs in older adults.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: GPs in private practice throughout France.

Primary care management of non-institutionalized elderly diabetic patients: The S.AGES cohort - Baseline data.

Aim: S.AGES is a multicenter prospective cohort study of non-institutionalized patients aged 65 and over with atrial fibrillation, type 2 diabetes or chronic pain. Its objective is to describe the medical management in primary care.

Consequences of dextropropoxyphene market withdrawal in elderly patients with chronic pain.

Objective: Describe the consequences of dextropropoxyphene (DXP) market withdrawal on analgesic prescriptions and on the quality of therapeutic management of chronic pain.

Patients And Methods: From a cohort of non-institutionalised elderly patients with chronic pain recruited by general practitioners, we selected patients who were treated with DXP daily for at least 6 months just prior to DXP market withdrawal and who had an evaluation of pain and its impact on daily activities before and after DXP withdrawal.

Results: One hundred three patients took DXP daily for chronic pain.

National observatory on the therapeutic management in ambulatory care patients aged 65 and over, with type 2 diabetes, chronic pain or atrial fibrillation.

The primary objective of the S.AGES cohort is to describe the real-life therapeutic care of elderly patients. Patients and methods.