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The prevalence of diabetic foot disease, a multifactorial syndrome which can lead to severe complications including limb amputation, is increasing among elderly patients. The most important causal factor is diabetic...
Restless legs syndrome refers to a common sensory-motor sleep disorder that affects sleep and quality of life, and it belongs to sleep-related movement disorder. Since the diagnosis of restless legs...
With growing elderly population, the interest for oral rehabilitation for elderly people has been increased. To rehabilitate oral condition, dental implant is an increasingly common restoration for the replacement of...
Among COVID-19 survivors, residual fatigue, emotional symptoms, and cognitive problems have been reported persistently. These neuropsychiatric sequelae have been regarded as the main symptom of post-COVID-19 syndrome (PCS), which is...
Salvage and reconstruction of crushed lower extremities is a complicated and difficult process, even more so in geriatric patients.
An 82-year-old female on hypertension and diabetes medication including anticoagulants with normal...
Background: The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to analyze the gait cycle of the elderly by dividing the gait cycle into four phases and extracting the weighting of eight...
Background: We aimed to identify the problems in response and to present the importance of infection control in nursing homes (NHs) through an epidemiological analysis of the first and second...
Background: Although there have been studies that neck circumference is related to metabolic syndrome and muscle strength, it has not been well studied in the elderly. Therefore, in this study,...
Background: Obesity and Central obesity increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Recent studies have shown that normal weight central obesity (NWCO) is associated with CVD risk factors and suggested...
Background: The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) for patients in hospice and palliative care or at the end of life was legislated in 2016 in Korea. This study...