Hospitalized older adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis exhibit impaired neutrophil function; however, glycolytic metabolism is not the driver of neutrophil dysfunction. This ...

Another possible sign is jaundice, which causes the skin and the whites of the eyes to turn yellow. Jaundice occurs when the liver cannot properly remove a yellow substance called bilirubin from the ...

One reason kidney disease is difficult to detect is that many of its early symptoms are mild. In older adults, these symptoms ...

Hypertension, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance, and obesity remain the major modifiable risk factors for most of the coronary disease afflicting the elderly. The relative risk associated with ...

Almost one-third of people over the age of 60 have valvular heart disease, although less than 3% have clinically significant disease, according to new registry data from the United Kingdom. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The prevalence of valvular heart disease increases sharply with advanced age. Nearly two-thirds of individuals ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older age was tied to a higher prevalence of 10 comorbidities among a group of 608 people with Cushing’s disease ...