Physical signs of dehydration in the elderly

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1207-1210

  Shimizu, Miyuki ^a   Kinoshita, Kensuke ^b   Hattori, Kazuya ^b   Ota, Yoshio ^b   Kanai, Takao ^b   Kobayashi, Hiroyuki ^b   Tokuda, Yasuharu ^b  

^a TERUMO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Dry axilla; Elderly; Physical sign

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DEATH; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SKIN TURGOR; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; SYMPTOM; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; URINE OSMOLALITY; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SODIUM;

EID: 84861756009     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.7056     Document Type: Article

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