A serious but often missed sign is confusion or trouble thinking clearly. This is called hepatic encephalopathy. It happens when the liver can’t remove toxins from the blood, and those toxins reach ...

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 ...

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 ...

Identifying an older patient who is at risk for post-operative cognitive dysfunction might be done in the blink of an eye—literally. Researchers at Duke Health found that a simple EEG measurement ...

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 ...

Older people are at a higher risk of pancreatitis. Data from the Global Burden of Disease 2021 study show that incidence rates and deaths associated with pancreatitis are falling among the elderly, ...