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Reproducibility and Validity of the Portuguese Edmonton Frail Scale Version in ...
Castro, ML; Alves, M; Martins, A; Papoila, AL; Botelho, MA; Fragata, JIntroduction: Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome characterized by the loss of functional reserve, associated with higher mortality and less functional survival in cardiac surgery patients. The Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS) is a comprehensive tool devised for brief frailty detection. To the best of our knowledge, there are no culturally adapted and validated frailty screening tools that enable the identificatio...
The impact of indoor air quality on respiratory health of older people living i...
Belo, J; Carreiro-Martins, P; Papoila, AL; Palmeiro, T; Caires, I; Alves, M; Nogueira, S; Aguiar, F; Mendes, A; Cano, M; Botelho, MA; Neuparth, Nn the Portuguese Geriatric Study of the Health Effects of Indoor Air Quality in Senior Nursing Homes, we aimed to evaluate the impact of indoor air contaminants on the respiratory symptoms and biomarkers in a sample of elderly living in nursing homes. A total of 269 elderly answered a health questionnaire, performed a spirometry and 150 out of these collected an exhaled breath condensate sample for pH and nitri...
Discriminative capacity and construct validity of the Clock Drawing Test in Mil...
Duro, D; Freitas, S; Tábuas-Pereira, M; Santiago, B; Botelho, MA; Santana, IOBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric and diagnostic properties of the Clock Drawing Test (CDT), scored according to the Babins, Rouleau, and Cahn scoring systems, for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) screening, and develop corresponding cutoff scores. Additionally, we assessed the construct validity of the CDT through exploratory and confirmatory factor a...
Reference Values for Spirometry in Elderly Individuals: a Cross-Sectional Study...
Belo, J; Palmeiro, T; Caires, I; Papoila, AL; Alves, M; Carreiro-Martins, P; Botelho, MA; Neuparth, NSpirometry is the single most important test for the evaluation of respiratory function. The results are interpreted by comparing measured data with predicted values previously obtained from a reference population. Reference equations for spirometry have been discussed previously. The aim of this study was to compare reference values based on National Health and Nutrition Assessment Survey (NHANES III), Europea...
Chronic Respiratory Diseases and Quality of Life in Elderly Nursing Home Residents
Carreiro-Martins, P; Gomes-Belo, J; Papoila, AL; Caires, I; Palmeiro, T; Gaspar-Marques, J; Leiria-Pinto, P; Mendes, AS; Paulo-Teixeira, J; Botelho, MAFew studies have assessed the quality of life (QOL) related to chronic respiratory diseases in the elderly. In the framework of the geriatric study on the health effects of air quality in elderly care centers (GERIA) study, a questionnaire was completed by elderly subjects from 53 selected nursing homes. It included various sections in order to assess respiratory complaints, QOL (World Health Organization QOL (...
The impact of indoor air quality and contaminants on respiratory health of olde...
Mendes, A; Papoila, AL; Carreiro-Martins, P; Bonassi, S; Caires, I; Palmeiro, T; Aguiar, L; Pereira, C; Neves, P; Mendes, D; Botelho, MA; Neuparth, NBACKGROUND: persons who are 65 years or older often spend an important part of their lives indoors thus adverse indoor climate might influence their health status. OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the influence of indoor air quality and contaminants on older people's respiratory health. DESIGN: cross-sectional study. SETTING: 21 long-term care residences (LTC) in the city of Porto, Portugal. SUBJECTS: older people living...
Chronic respiratory diseases and quality of life in elderly nursing home residents
Carreiro-Martins, P; Gomes-Belo, J; Papoila, AL; Caires, I; Palmeiro, T; Gaspar-Marques, J; Leiria-Pinto, P; Mendes, A; Teixeira, JP; Botelho, MAFew studies have assessed the quality of life (QOL) related to chronic respiratory diseases in the elderly. In the framework of the geriatric study on the health effects of air quality in elderly care centers (GERIA) study, a questionnaire was completed by elderly subjects from 53 selected nursing homes. It included various sections in order to assess respiratory complaints, QOL (World Health Organization QOL (...
Estudo do perfil do envelhecimento da população portuguesa
Oliveira, CR; Santos-Rosa, M; Mota-Pinto, A; Botelho, MA; Morais, A; Veríssimo, MT