Anatolie Lichtenstein

..To study differences in nutritional status and body composition, by feeding modality, among disabled nursing home residents...

..To study possible differences in rehabilitation outcomes of patients with hip fracture, with and without atrial fibrillation...

..We studied crude and adjusted survival rates in elderly hip fracture patients with and without atrial fibrillation (AF) to assess possible risk of death associated with AF...

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..It remains to be determined whether a more careful medical and surgical management of such patients will result in less eventful hospital course...

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..The objective of this study was to explore possible relationship of discharge hemoglobin levels and functional outcome of elderly hip fracture patients, undergoing in-hospital rehabilitation...

..In hip fracture patients treated with 25mg/day MK-0677, the increase in plasma IGF-1 levels was not paralleled by improvement in most functional performance measures. MK-0677 has an unfavorable safety profile in this patient population...

..To compare survival rates of hip fracture patients treated within a comprehensive geriatric hip fracture unit (CGHFU) with those undergoing a standard of care treatment (SOCT) in general orthopedic wards...

..The aim of the study is to describe the results of its operation during a five-year period...

..03, compared with TG). The results suggest that DDCT treatment for pressure ulcers grade 3 degree, in addition to the conservative wound care, may be useful in accelerating the healing process during the first period of care...

..Cross-matching may be reserved only for patients presenting with hemoglobin < 12 g% and pertrochanteric fractures. This practice seems safe and should help in reducing the extent of unnecessary blood ordering...

..The present study investigated possible differences in levels of these lipids in AD patients, with or without cardiovascular diseases or risk factors...

..A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying such interrelations may have research and interventional implications...

..The aims of this study were to compare the functional outcomes associated with an innovative comprehensive single-step (geriatric-based) and classic double-step (orthopedic-based) treatment of such patients...

..Alternatively, this may indicate that the effect of the medication may involve lipid metabolism, rather than other proposed mechanisms...

..It is concluded that preoperative delirium should be viewed as a separate entity with unfavorable nature and adverse outcome. Careful preventive measures and better treating strategies should be employed to avoid this clinical condition...

..53 (95% CI: 0.29-0.97)]. Smoking, increased systolic BP, older age and male sex increased mortality risk. We conclude that in our study, although ethnic origin and lifestyle habits are interrelated, each affects mortality independently...

..The authors sought to evaluate the interrelationship between patent ductus arteriosus, treatment with indomethacin and the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants...

..The quality of proxy reports provided by husbands regarding women's health, when the index case (the wife) cannot be interviewed, is controversial...

..We examined the association of sepsis due to specific pathogens with the risk for early mortality after the onset of LOS, adjusted for perinatal and neonatal risk factors...

..In addition, BPD only [odds ratio (OR) 1.84; 95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.03-3.23] and BPD with postnatal steroid therapy (OR 2.66; 95% CI 1.59-4.46) were independently associated with an increased risk for candidal sepsis...

..Variables with P </=.1 were then tested by a multiple logistic regression for assessing the net effect of each variable on the risk for LOS...