L Fredman

..The authors describe the advantages and limitations of these methods and practical and conceptual issues in combining investigator-initiated and public-use datasets...

..Chronic stress may lead to health decline through metabolic syndrome. Thus, persons in stressful caregiving situations who also have more indicators of metabolic syndrome may experience more decline than other caregivers or noncaregivers...

..Higher levels of physical performance persisted over 2 years among high-intensity caregivers, which did not support the traditional stress hypothesis...

..We hypothesized that caregivers may be more physically active than noncaregivers, which may protect them from health decline...

..To investigate the separate and combined effects of caregiver status and high stress on mortality risk over 8 years in elderly women...

..To evaluate whether patients with hip fracture with high positive affect had better functioning than those with low positive affect or depressive symptoms in three performance-based measures over 2 years after the fracture...

..Compare performance-based functioning over 2 years among elderly women hip fracture patients vs. community-dwelling older women...

..However, through caregiving tasks, caregivers may be as physically active as non-caregivers. This study compared leisure-time exercise and overall physical activity in elderly women caregivers and non-caregivers...

..7-15%; attributable disability, approximately six cases per 100 persons). Thus, results showed that hip fracture patients had substantially more activities of daily living disability than that explained by aging over 24 months...

..We examined the relation between median housing value and hypertension risk among US Black women...

..To determine whether depressive symptoms modify the association between caregiving and sleep problems in elderly women...

..Unique experiences associated with "race," such as racism, may adversely affect health. Our goal is to assess whether racism is associated with the occurrence of hypertension in African-American women...

..This study estimated the odds of depressive symptoms over the prior week among women exposed to child abuse or IPV alone, and both child abuse and IPV...

..There is evidence that drinking large amounts of alcohol is related to brain atrophy. It is uncertain what the effects of low to moderate consumption might be...

..The latter studies benefited from unbiased selection of noncaregivers. DISCUSSION: Regardless of sampling frame, standard task-based inclusion criteria to define caregivers may enhance validity...

..The contribution of hip fracture to the risk of subsequent fractures is unclear...

..This study of 349 elderly caregivers explored mediators of the caregiving / stress relationship for caregivers to adults with (n = 106), and without (n = 243) dementia...

..Elevated homocysteine is a strong risk factor for osteoporotic fractures among elders, yet it may be a marker for low B-vitamin status...

..The results will guide the design of a larger RCT of the effects of MBSR on reducing stress, and will provide insight into the physiological mechanisms of MBSR. ..

..Results will provide insight into biological pathways underlying health decline in aged caregivers, and have implications for interventions to reduce adverse effects of chronic stress. ..

..Study results will guide interventions to reduce effects of stress on physical and cognitive health in older caregivers, and older adults in general. ..

..The results will advance research on the physiological and health effects of caregiving, and have implications for designing interventions for caregivers to persons with hip fracture or other conditions. ..

..Results will provide insight into biological pathways underlying health decline in aged caregivers, and have implications for interventions to reduce adverse effects of chronic stress. ..

..Study results will guide interventions to reduce effects of stress on physical and cognitive health in older caregivers, and older adults in general. ..

..Results will provide insight into biological pathways underlying health decline in aged caregivers, and have implications for interventions to reduce adverse effects of chronic stress. ..

..These study results will provide epidemiologic evidence of adverse physical health outcomes of caregiving, and implications for detection and prevention of health decline in caregivers. ..

..The results will advance research on the physiological and health effects of caregiving, and have implications for designing interventions for caregivers to persons with hip fracture or other conditions. ..