Constipation in old age

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 875-887

  Gallagher, Paul ^a   O'Mahony, Denis ^a  

^a Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork   (Ireland)

Author keywords

ageing; clinical assessment; constipation; faecal impaction; laxatives

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IRON; ISPAGULA; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; LUBIPROSTONE; LUBRICATING AGENT; MAGNESIUM DERIVATIVE; METHYLCELLULOSE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; POLYCARBOPHIL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; AGING; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BLOATING; CALORIC INTAKE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXERCISE; FECES IMPACTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FLATULENCE; FOOD COMPOSITION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE SURGERY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LUNG EDEMA; MEGACOLON; NAUSEA; PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE TRAINING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FECAL IMPACTION; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71749098351     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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