Perceived Ageism is Associated With Recurrent Falling Among Older Colombian Adults.

Literature on the association between ageism and falling among older adults is limited. Using data from the nationwide cross-sectional SABE () Colombia Survey in 2015 with 18,875 participants aged ≥60 years living in the communities, the study aims to evaluate the association between perceived ageism within the family, neighborhood, health services, and public services, and recurrent falling. Participants had a mean age of 69.

Social determinants of health and metabolic syndrome in Colombian older adults.

Background And Aims: Social determinants of health (SDH) are critical in health outcomes. More insight is needed on the correlation between SDH and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in the aging population. This study assessed the association between SDH and MetS scores among older adults in Colombia.

[Sociodemographic, clinical and ultrasound characterization of thyroid nodule pathology and its association with malignancy in a Colombian high-complexity center].

Background And Objective: Thyroid nodules are among the most frequent conditions, with a 10% risk of malignancy. The objective is to describe the frequency of demographic, clinical, and ultrasonographic characteristics of thyroid nodule pathology in adults and to explore the relationship with tumor malignancy.

Methods: An analytical, retrospective cross-sectional study in adults with thyroid nodules and nodular fine-needle aspiration performed in adult patients from a Colombian reference center between 2009-2019.

Racial Discrimination and Multimorbidity Among Older Adults in Colombia: A National Data Analysis.

Introduction: Multimorbidity is a prevalent worldwide problem among older adults. Our objective was to assess the association between life-course racial discrimination and multimorbidity among older adults in Colombia.

Methods: We used data from the SABE (Salud, Bienestar y Envejecimiento) Colombia Study in 2015 (N = 18,873), a national cross-sectional survey among adults aged 60 years or older.

Medical falls among older adults in Latin American cities.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence and risk factors for falls requiring medical attention, referred as medical falls, in community-dwelling persons aged >60 years. Methods A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using information from the Health, Well-Being, and Aging ("SABE") Study in Latin America and the Caribbean (7 cities), as well as from the SABE Bogota study (pooled sample of 8 cities n=12,487). Falls that occurred during a past 12-month period were considered and then noted if required medical treatment because of the fall.

[Retinal alterations detected by non-mydriatic retinal camera screening and referral to ophthalmology in a population with high cardiovascular risk].

Objective: To describe the main retinal alterations detected by non-mydriatic retinal camera screening and to evaluate factors related to referral to ophthalmology in a population at high cardiovascular risk in Palmira, Colombia.

Materials And Methods: Cross-sectional observational study, which included 11,983 photographic imaging records of patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus from Gesencro's S.A.

Sarcopenic Dysphagia Is Associated With Mortality in Institutionalized Older Adults.

Objective: To estimate mortality associated with sarcopenic dysphagia.

Design: A 3-year follow-up cohort.

Setting And Participants: Ninety-five nursing home residents were evaluated to determine the baseline presence or absence of oropharyngeal dysphagia and followed up for 3 years.

The Association Between Discrimination and Falling. A National Sample of Older Adults.

Objective: To assess the relationship between discrimination and falling among older people.

Methods: A cross-sectional nationwide population-based face-to-face survey, 2015. The SABE () Colombia Study, 19,004 community-dwelling adults aged ≥60 years.

Sarcopenic dysphagia in institutionalised older adults.

Introduction: Sarcopenic dysphagia, defined as dysphagia caused by sarcopenia, is a swallowing disorder of great interest to the medical community. The objective of our study was to evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with sarcopenic dysphagia in institutionalised older adults.

Material And Methods: An observational, analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted in a nursing home between September and December 2017, with 100 participants.

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics, morbidity and treatment based on the registry of acromegalic patients in Colombia: RAPACO.

Aims: Describe the local characteristics, methodology and results of the registry of acromegalic patients in Colombia (RAPACO).

Methods: Multicenter, retrospective study based on the registry of acromegalic patients in Colombia: RAPACO. The data collected included: demographics, diagnosis, approximate time of disease evolution, data on weight, height, body mass index (BMI), neck circumference (NC) abdominal circumference (AC) hip circumference (HC) and waist/hip ratio (WHR); clinical and biochemical data at the time of diagnosis, etiology, immunohistochemistry of the tumor and information related to types of treatment.

Sarcopenic dysphagia in institutionalised older adults.

Introduction: Sarcopenic dysphagia, defined as dysphagia caused by sarcopenia, is a swallowing disorder of great interest to the medical community. The objective of our study was to evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with sarcopenic dysphagia in institutionalised older adults.

Material And Methods: An observational, analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted in a nursing home between September and December 2017, with 100 participants.

Diaphragmatic Paraganglioma in an Adolescent Male.

Paragangliomas are an infrequent type of neuroendocrine tumor that commonly produces catecholamines. We describe a case of a 14-year-old male with a history of uncontrolled hypertension who presented to the emergency department with a headache, palpitations, and profuse sweating. Symptoms were explained by the presence of a catecholamine-producing paraganglioma located at the right diaphragm.

Polyvictimization and Recurrent Falling in Older Ecuadorian Adults: The Mediation Role of Depressive Symptoms.

To assess depressive symptoms as a mediator in the association between polyvictimization and recurrent falling. Using data from the (Health, Well-being, and Aging) Ecuador Study, we analyzed community-dwelling adults 60 years and older ( = 5227). Recurrent falling was determined as ≥2 falls during the prior 12 months.

Frailty in older adults and their association with social determinants of Health. The SABE Colombia Study.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of frailty and evaluate the relationship with the social determinants of health in elderly residents in urban and rural areas of Colombia.

Methods: The SABE (Health, Wellbeing, and Aging) Colombia project is a cross-sectional study, carried out in 2014-2015, involving 24,553 men and women aged 60 years and older who live in the community in Colombia. For this analysis, we used data from 4,474 participants included as a subsample with grip strength measurements.

[Estimated glomerular filtration rate and post-hospital mortality after discharge from an acute care for the elderly unit].

Objective: To determine the relationship between estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and mortality in a retrospective cohort of older adults admitted to an acute care for the elderly (ACE) unit.

Materials And Methods: The study included 1,678 patients aged 60 years and over admitted to an AEC, in Cali, Colombia, from 2012 to 2015, and followed- up until 2016. The primary outcome was mortality.

[Conceptualization of institutional elderly caregiver in Colombia].

Objective: To conceptualize institutional elderly caregiver in Colombia as formal caregivers.

Methods: A documentary review was carried out using a qualitative and descriptive approach, in order to analyze the work of institutional caregivers based on two dimensions: the internal dimension to realize their reality according to the study entitled "Institutional Caregiver: characterization, current situation and support networks - Colombia 2013", and the external dimension to recognize the perspective of the State and the academy on the issue.

Results: It was possible to see that, although Colombia has made progress on regulation matters, the country has not yet fully developed a care system for the elderly that articulates actors and responsibilities of care providers (individuals, families, civil society and the State).

Association Between History of Abuse and Falling in Older Adults.

Objectives: To explore the association between history of several types of abuse and falling.

Design: Cross-sectional population-based study.

Setting: Data from the Salud, Bienestar y Envejecimiento (Health, Well-being, and Aging) Bogotá Study.

[Functional impairment associated with cognitive impairment in hospitalised elderly].

Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyse the effect of cognitive impairment on functional decline in hospitalised patients aged ≥60 years.

Methods: Measurements at admission included demographic data, Charlson's comorbidity index, and cognitive impairment (according to education level). Data were also collected on hospital length of stay, depression, and delirium developed during hospitalisation.

Prevalence of poor self-rated health and associated risk factors among older adults in Cali, Colombia.

Introduction: Self-rated health (SRH) has beeen considered an important marker of quality of life and an independent predictor of mortality in older adults.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of poor SRH and identify risk factors associated with poor SRH among older adults residing in the Commune 18 of the city of Cali, Colombia, in 2009.

Methods: A population-based cross-sectional study with a single-stage cluster sampling design.

Vitamin B12 deficit and development of geriatric syndromes.

Vitamin B12 deficiency or cyanocobalamin is a common condition in the elderly. It is repeatedly overlooked due to multiple clinical manifestations that can affect the blood, neurological, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular systems, skin and mucous membranes. The various presentations of vitamin B12 deficiency are related to the development of geriatric syndromes like frailty, falls, cognitive impairment, and geriatric nutritional syndromes like protein-energy malnutrition and failure to thrive, in addition to enhancing aging anorexia and cachexia.