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• • ·Editorial board

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• Editorial

  • ·Many faces of heart failure–a geriatric syndrome

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    T. Nieminen, T.E. Strandberg

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• Research papers

  • ·Alcohol use and happiness among retired Finns living in Spain compared to those in Finland

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    M. Raivio, H. Kautiainen, S. Immonen, K. Pitkälä

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  • ·An evaluation of home health care needs and Quality of Life among the elderly in a semi-rural area of Western Turkey

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    R. Aydin, E. Unal, M.E. Gokler, S. Metintas, G.O. Emiral, O. Ozay, F. Onsuz, B. Isikli

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  • ·Association of “Controlling Nutritional Status Index” and “Prognostic Nutritional Index” with intensive care unit survival in elderly patients

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    M. Kos, H. Titiz, B. Onec, T. Soysal, A. Kutlucan, S. Sahiner Emen, L. Kutlucan

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  • ·The relationship of vitamin D with bone mineral density in Parkinson's disease patients

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    M. Serdaro?lu Beyazal, S. K?rba?, A. Tüfekçi, G. Devrimsel, A. Küçükali Türky?lmaz

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  • ·Adequacy of ESC atrial fibrillation guidelines in the elderly population: Analysis of practices from an internal medicine department

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    A. Pinheiro Sá, S. Sapeta Dias, P. Cantiga Duarte, P. Alcântara, J. Braz Nogueira

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  • ·Nonagenarians presenting to the diagnostic heart failure clinic

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    S.J. Allison, C.M. Orton, A. Al-Mohammad

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  • ·Multimorbidity and functional status in institutionalized older adults

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    S. Marventano, A. Ayala, N. Gonzalez, C. Rodríguez-Blázquez, S. Garcia-Gutierrez, M. João Forjaz, Spanish Research Group of Quality of Life, Ageing

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  • ·Examining potentially inappropriate prescribing in residential care using the STOPP/START criteria

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    N.J. Ailabouni, P.S. Nishtala, J.M. Tordoff

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• EGM clinical case

  • ·Dabigatran-related axillary hematoma and coagulopathy in a patient with a pacemaker: The lesson we learned from a case report

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    M.-C. Chung, C.-H. Huang, Y.-M. Hsu, I.-C. Lin

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  • ·Selective bilingual impairment and distinctive recovery after stroke

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    H.G. Kang, J.Y. Chung, B.J. Kim

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• Short communications

  • ·Impact of vitamin D on asthma

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    Y.B. Shaik-Dasthagirisaheb, P. Conti

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  • ·Physical activity study of older people in hospital: A cross-sectional analysis using accelerometers

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    T. Ong, V. Anand, W. Tan, A. Watson, O. Sahota

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• Controversies in geriatric medicine

  • ·Non-pharmacological interventions for people with Alzheimer's Disease: A critical review of the scientific literature from the last ten years

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    D.M. Cammisuli, S. Danti, F. Bosinelli, G. Cipriani

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• Pharmacology applied to geriatric medicine

  • ·Controversies in antiplatelet therapy in the secondary prevention of stroke

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    T. Adamek

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  • ·Pharmacoeconomic and clinical aspect of a sequential intravenous to oral therapy plan in an acute geriatric ward

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    J.J. del Pozo-Ruiz, E. Martín-Pérez, V. Malafarina

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• Hot topic in geriatric medicine

  • ·Healthy brain ageing and cognition: Nutritional factors

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    M. Vandewoude, P. Barberger-Gateau, T. Cederholm, P. Mecocci, A. Salvà, G. Sergi, E. Topinkova, D. Van Asselt

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• Organ specialists coping with geriatric patients

  • ·Study of cardiac structure and function assessed by echocardiography in patients older than 100 years

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    R. Rabuñal-Rey, J.C. Piñeiro-Fernández, R. Monte-Secades, A. Testa-Fernández, P. Ventura-Valcárcel

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• Letters to the editor

  • ·Late relapse after resection of stage IIIA lung adenocarcinoma in an elderly

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    T. Shiozawa, Y. Tsunoda, H. Kitazawa, D. Yamakawa, H. Satoh, N. Hizawa

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  • ·Anthracycline-induced acute myocarditis

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    B. Dilly, Q. Bodard, F. Roca, P. Chassagne

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  • ·External validity of a muscle mass formula derived from simple demographic and anthropometric measurements in a group of Mexican older adults

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    M.U. Pérez-Zepeda, M. González-Lara, L.M. Gutiérrez-Robledo

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  • ·A comparison of two glomerular filtration rate estimating formulae in elderly

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    M. Cozzolino, C. Maioli

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  • ·What is the diagnosis? A mass of the breast in an old man

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    A. Tan, S. Chung, V. Ducasse, J. Laganier, A. Teixeira

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  • ·A story of hands and smelly feet

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    S. Stollsteiner, S. Chung, J. Laganier, A. Tan, C. Brun, V. Ducasse, A. Teixeira

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  • ·Elderly with gunshot injury crossing zones I to III of the neck

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    C.-Z. Peng, C.-Y. Wang

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