Clinical relevance of thiamine status amongst hospitalized elderly patients

Gerontology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 96-101

  Pepersack, Thierry ^a   Garbusinski, Johanna ^b   Robberecht, Jean ^b   Beyer, Ingo ^b   Willems, Dominique ^b   Fuss, Michel ^b  

^a BRUGMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Activities of daily living scales; Delirium; Elderly; Thiamine

Indexed keywords

COCARBOXYLASE; FUROSEMIDE; THIAMINE; TRANSKETOLASE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DELIRIUM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; SOCIAL CLASS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; TRANSKETOLASE;

EID: 0033033409     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022070     Document Type: Article

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