The importance of nutrition in human health has been understood for over a century.
However, debate is ongoing regarding the role of added and free sugars in physiological …

Frail older people have an inherent risk of polypharmacy due to the need to treat multiple
comorbidities, thus leading to various negative effects on their health due to the adverse …

Objective To evaluate the effects of a computerised decision support tool for comprehensive
drug review in elderly people with polypharmacy. Design Pragmatic, multicentre, cluster …

Objectives Our aim was to explore the patterns of intrinsic capacity (IC) impairments among
community-dwelling older adults and the associations of these different patterns with …

Background Polypharmacy, defined as the concurrent use of≥ 5 medications, increases the
risk of drug-drug and drug-disease interactions as well as non-adherence to drug therapy …

European population ageing is associated with frailty, a complex geriatric syndrome, and
polypharmacy, both resulting in adverse health outcomes. In this study we aimed to evaluate …

People over 65 years of age constitute over 80% of patients with heart failure (HF) and the
incidence of HF is 10 per 1,000 in people aged above 65 years. Approximately 25% of older …

Obesity and sarcopenic obesity (SO) are characterized by excess body fat with or without
low muscle mass affecting bio‐psycho‐social health, functioning, and subsequently quality …

Objectives The present study analysed 4 years of a hospital register (2015–2018) to
determine the risk of 30-day hospital readmission associated with the medical conditions …

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of polypharmacy among older adults (≥ 65 years); to
verify its association with sociodemographic variables, nutritional status and health …