A5025481564- Health, Medicine and Society
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Diabetes Management and Research
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Neurological and metabolic disorders
- Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
- Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments
- Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency
- Neurological diseases and metabolism
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Face Recognition and Perception
Hôpital du Valais
2014-2024
Hôpitaux de Saint Maurice
2005
To investigate the relationship between obesity and 30-day mortality in a cohort of older hospitalized COVID-19 inpatients.Included patients were aged 70 years or more; acute geriatric wards March December 2020; with positive PCR for COVID-19; not candidate to intensive care unit admission. Clinical data collected from electronic medical records. Data on retrieved hospital administrative database.Patients included (N = 294) average 83.4 ± 6.7 old, 50.7% women, 21.7% obese (BMI > 30 kg/m2)....
Children exposed to biomass used in households are at risk develop diseases or respiratory symptoms. In Madagascar more than 95% of use it daily. The main objective is study the impact chronic exposure on health children under 15 years old Madagascar.
BackgroundHospital malnutrition is a costly phenomenon as it contributes to complicate and prolong hospital stays. Optimal care of requires the identification patients at risk with an early screening: latter not systematically carried out due lack specific education, but also time user-friendly tools. The aim was achieve systematic nutritional screening all increase recording diagnosis in discharge letter.MethodsMultidisciplinary work group create nutrition protocols equivalences between...
The use of GLP-1 receptor agonists and iSGLT2 is becoming increasingly common, in line with new guidelines issued by the learned societies cardiology, nephrology diabetology. However, enthusiasm aroused these drugs needs to be tempered their very elderly and/or frail carefully considered lack scientific studies this population category, , prescription requires a comprehensive geriatric assessment before initiating type treatment.
Despite recent new recommendations from professional societies regarding the management of diabetes in older adults, it is clear that routine practice, treatment targets are often ill-suited to health state polymorbid elderly diabetic patients.