We took prevalence of depression as 20% (based on a previous health center based study of elderly depression in Karachi) [ 22] and assumed the proportion of elderly not having family support as 50%.
In this large, prospective, population based study of elderly people who were free of dementia and did not use benzodiazepines until at least the third year of follow-up, new use of benzodiazepines was associated with a significant, approximately 50% increase in the risk of dementia.
The EPIDOS-study; a population based study of 5,954 elderly women (+75 years), showed that applying the UK-NOS triage approach resulted in the avoidance of 44% DXAs, while 11% were categorised as false positive and 13% false negative [ 23, 26].
The Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study (AGES-Reykjavik) study is a population based study of approximately 5700 elderly individuals from the 40 year long Reykjavik study.
In this large, population-based study of elderly individuals, we found no cross-sectional association between WML volume or brain infarcts and RLS.
Van den Berg JF, Van Rooij FJ, Vos H, Tulen JH, Hofman A, Miedema HM et al. Disagreement between subjective and actigraphic measures of sleep duration in a population-based study of elderly persons.
Iron deficiency is frequently observed in the elderly, therefore the aim of this study was to find out if iron deficiency is independent from low grade inflammatory factors affecting both forms of FGF23 that are detectable in circulation in a large population-based study of elderly subjects.
Since renal function diminishes with aging we examined the association between GFR and CAC in the Rotterdam Study, a population-based study of elderly individuals.
Our objective is to assess the risk of developing AD according to the baseline anti-HSV-1 or HSV-2 immunoglobulin status (IgG and IgM) over a 14-year period of follow-up in a large prospective population-based study of elderly subjects.
To evaluate the association between white matter lesion (WML) volume, silent infarcts and restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a population-based study of elderly individuals.
This group published another population-based study of elderly people in China that evaluated metal biomarkers in blood plasma rather than in drinking water (base study population: n = 2000, blood sample subpopulation: n = 188) [ 6].
