Pain management in the elderly at the end of life.

Background: The treatment of older adults with pain is complex and affected by age-related changes in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Chronic pain encompasses a complex array of sensory-discriminatory, motivational-affective, and cognitive-evaluative components. Because of this complexity, both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic approaches should be considered to treat pain.

Dietary intake is not associated to the metabolic syndrome in elderly women.

Background: The metabolic syndrome is a complex metabolic disturbance due to an interaction between genetic factors, poor dietary habits and physical inactivity.

Aims: To investigate the role of dietary intake on the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in a population of elderly, socially active women in Brazil.

Patients And Methods: A total of 284 women with mean age 69.

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in an elderly community: comparison between three diagnostic methods.

Background: The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MS) has shown wide variation in different studies, depending on the population sample and the diagnostic criteria used. The prevalence of MS tends to be higher with the diagnostic criteria of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).

Objective: To compare the prevalence of MS using different criteria in an elderly community.

Time of onset and prognosis amongst Southern Brazilian hospitalized elderly patients.

Unlabelled: The prognostic significance of in hospitalized elderly has not yet been fully clarified.

Objectives: The present study was designed to evaluate the relationship between prevalent (PrD), incident (InD) and final outcome.

Methods: A historical cohort of 261 patients was selected.