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Frailty in the elderly: screening possibilities in Primary Health Care
Ribeiro,Edmar Geraldo; Mendoza,Isabel Yovana Quispe; Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida Camargos; Guimarães,Gilberto de LimaABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate two instruments for screening frailty in the elderly in Primary Health Care. Methods: this is an observational, cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, with 396 elderly people. SPSS software helped to perform the statistical analyses. The study used the kappa coefficient and Spearman’s correlation. Results: the kappa coefficient between the Clinical-Functional Vulne...
Clinical Frailty Scale em idosos atendidos no Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência:...
Pinheiro,Tatiana de Carvalho Espíndola; Alcântara,Camila Oliveira; Pereira,Fabiano Moraes; Andrade,Marcus Vinícius Melo de; Moraes,Edgar Nunes deResumo Objetivo Avaliar a capacidade da Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) em predizer a mortalidade em até 90 dias e outros desfechos desfavoráveis em idosos admitidos em um Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência (SHE). Método Estudo de coorte prospectivo que incluiu idosos admitidos e que permaneceram por pelo menos uma noite no SHE de um hospital público terciário. O grau de fragilidade basal foi avaliado através da CF...
The impact of intensive care admission criteria on elderly mortality
Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Belém,Dinah; Moraes,Edgar Nunes; Botoni,Fernando Antônio; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida CamargosSUMMARY OBJECTIVE To review systematically the influence of admission criteria on the mortality of elderly patients under intensive therapy. METHODS We performed a search on the PUBMED and BIREME databases by using the MeSH and DeCS terms “intensive care units”, “patient admission”, and “aged” in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Only prospective and retrospective cohort studies were included. We analyzed the s...
Frailty in older adults attending an outpatient geriatric clinic as measured by...
Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Guimarães,Felipe Ferreira; Souza,Cislene Teixeira de; Luz,Fernanda Silva Trindade; Murta,Érica Dias<p><b>BACKGROUND:</b> Existing instruments for the diagnosis of frailty are limited by their focus on mobility evaluation, failure to incorporate comorbidities, and dichotomous classification of patients as frail or non-frail, which hinders adequate identification of frail older adults. <br> <b>OBJECTIVE:</b> To evaluate the frailty profile of outpatients seen at a secondary geriatric care service in Belo Horiz...
Heart Rate and its Variability Assessed by Spectral Analysis in Elderly Subject...
Silva,Rose Mary Ferreira Lisboa da; Miranda,Carlos Eduardo de Souza; Barbosa,Maira Tonidandel; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida CamargosAbstract Background: The prevalence of orthostatic hypotension (OH) increases with age and is associated with changes in autonomic regulation of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR). Objective: to assess HR and HR variability (HRV) in elderly subjects with OH and determine OH predictors. Methods: a total of 105 patients aged ≥ 60 years, 39 with OH (case group) and 66 without OH (control group) (age-matched) ...
Profile of drugs used for self-medication by elderly attended at a referral center
Oliveira,Samanta Bárbara Vieira de; Barroso,Soraya Coelho Costa; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida Camargos; Reis,Adriano Max MoreiraABSTRACT Objective To determine the profile of medications used for self-medication by the elderly. Methods A cross-sectional study based on interviews with elderly seen at a reference center for Elderly Health of a teaching hospital, from July 2014 to July 2015. Clinical, demographic and pharmacotherapeutic data were collected. Results A total of 170 elderly were interviewed, 85.9% female, and the median age w...
Características orofaciais de idosos funcionalmente independentes
Silva,Danielle Nunes Moura; Couto,Erica de Araújo Brandão; Becker,Helena Maria Gonçalves; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida CamargosRESUMO Objetivo conhecer as características orofaciais de idosos funcionalmente independentes e analisar a associação com a idade, gênero, nível socioeconômico e estado dentário. Método estudo observacional, transversal de caráter analítico com amostra não probabilística. Foi aplicado o instrumento validado “Protocolo de Avaliação Miofuncional Orofacial com Escalas para Idoso” em sujeitos funcionalmente indepen...
Functional decline in the elderly with MCI: Cultural adaptation of the ADCS-ADL...
Cintra,Fabiana Carla Matos da Cunha; Cintra,Marco Túlio Gualberto; Nicolato,Rodrigo; Bertola,Laiss; Ávila,Rafaela TeixeiraSummary Objective: Translate, transcultural adaptation and application to Brazilian Portuguese of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study - Activities of Daily Living (ADCS-ADL) scale as a cognitive screening instrument. Method: We applied the back translation added with pretest and bilingual methods. The sample was composed by 95 elderly individuals and their caregivers. Thirty-two (32) participants were dia...
Verbal learning on depressive pseudodementia: accentuate impairment of free rec...
Paula,Jonas Jardim de; Miranda,Debora Marques; Nicolato,Rodrigo; Moraes,Edgar Nunes de; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida Camargos; Malloy-Diniz,Leandro FernandesObjective Depressive pseudodementia (DPD) is a clinical condition characterized by depressive symptoms followed by cognitive and functional impairment characteristics of dementia. Memory complaints are one of the most related cognitive symptoms in DPD. The present study aims to assess the verbal learning profile of elderly patients with DPD. Methods Ninety-six older adults (34 DPD and 62 controls) were assessed...
Doenças crônicas, cognição, declínio funcional e Índice de Charlson em idosos c...
Pimenta,Fausto Aloísio Pedrosa; Bicalho,Maria Aparecida Camargos; Romano-Silva,Marco Aurélio; Moraes,Edgar Nunes de; Rezende,Nilton Alves deOBJETIVO: Este estudo avaliou a associação entre as doenças crônico-degenerativas e o declínio funcional, a cognição e a predição da mortalidade. MÉTODOS: Um estudo transversal foi realizado em um Serviço de Geriatria em Belo Horizonte, Brasil, envolvendo 424 pacientes subdivididos em dois grupos: controle e com demência. Foram analisados dados sociodemográficos e ambientais, doenças crônicas degenerativas, o Í...