scholarly journals Diabetes control and metabolism maintenance during COVID-19 period in comparison to three other periods using GH-Method: math-physical medicine (No. 288)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Diabetes Control ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diabetes Prediction ◽  
Quantitative Results

This paper describes the author’s quantitative results of diabetes control and metabolism maintenance within a 4.5-year period covering two years from 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2020. Special attention has been placed on the COVID-19 quarantine period from 1/1/2020 to 6/30/2020. COVID-19 is more than 100 times worse than SARS that occurred in 2003, in terms of its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups, such as the elderly with existing chronic diseases and history of complications, or people with psychological disorders, who require special attention to their health conditions and lifestyle management during this quarantine period. However, during this time, the author has achieved better results on both of his diabetes control and metabolism management. The knowledge and experience he has acquired in the past 10 years of medical research and his developed MI model and diabetes prediction tools have assisted him in many ways. As a result, he has turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

scholarly journals Diabetes Control and Metabolism Maintenance During Covid-19 Period in Comparison to Three Other Periods Using GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Gerald C. Hsu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Diabetes Control ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diabetes Prediction ◽  
Quantitative Results

This paper describes the author’s quantitative results of diabetes control and metabolism maintenance within a 4.5-year period covering two years from 7/1/2018 to 6/30/2020. Special attention has been placed on the COVID-19 quarantine period from 1/1/2020 to 6/30/2020. COVID-19 is more than 100 times worse than SARS that occurred in 2003, in terms of its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups, such as the elderly with existing chronic diseases and history of complications, or people with psychological disorders, who require special attention to their health conditions and lifestyle management during this quarantine period. However, during this time, the author has achieved better results on both of his diabetes control and metabolism management. The knowledge and experience he has acquired in the past 10 years of medical research and his developed MI model and diabetes prediction tools have assisted him in many ways. As a result, he has turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

scholarly journals The Change in Health Biomarkers for Bodyweight and Glucoses Between the PreVirus Period and COVID-19 Period Based on GH-Method: Math-Physical Medicine (No. 468)

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Modifications ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

This paper describes the author’s quantitative improvements on his weight and glucose resulting from lifestyle modifications. Special attention has been placed on both the pre-virus period from 5/5/2018 to 1/18/2020 (total 624 days with 1,934 meals and snacks) and the COVID-19 quarantined period from 1/19/2020 to 6/16/2021 (total 514 days with 1,536 meals). This article emphasizes on bodyweight, glucoses, and glucose fluctuations (GF) during the two compared periods. In general, his health conditions of weight and glucoses in the COVID-19 period (514 days) are better than his health conditions in the pre-virus period (624 days). The COVID-19 pandemic is more than 100 times worse than SARS that occurred in 2003, in terms of its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups” such as the elderly, with existing chronic diseases and history of complications, require special attention to their health conditions and lifestyle management during this COVID-19 quarantine period. In this particular period, the author achieved better results on both his diabetes control and overall metabolism management. The knowledge and experience he has gained in the past 11 years of medical research and his developed metabolism index (MI) model along with his four diabetes prediction tools assisted him in many ways. During the quarantine period, he has stopped traveling and suffered no jet-lag, eating home-cooked meals, maintaining nutritional balance, continuing his daily walking exercise of 16,000 steps (~10.7 km or 6.7 miles each day), sleeping 7.2 hours each night, living a stressfree life, avoiding negative news of politics and the pandemic, and keeping a regular daily life routine. The author enjoys conducting medical research, which is his obsessive hobby, and does not need to make a living off his work. Therefore, he feels no pressure at all to continuously perform research over the past 11 years. As a result, he has actually turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

scholarly journals A postprandial plasma glucose (PPG) comparison study between pre-COVID-19 and during COVID-19 using GH-Method: math-physical medicine (No. 317)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Time Instant ◽  
Diabetes Control ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
World Population ◽  
Lifestyle Management ◽  
Postprandial Plasma Glucose ◽  
Index Model

The author utilizes quantitative analysis results based on diabetes control for two periods: the pre-COVID-19 period, from 5/5/2018 to 1/18/2020, and the COVID-19 period, from 1/19/2020 to 8/24/2020, within a duration of 2.3 years. Special attention has been placed on his specific lifestyle management during the COVID-19 quarantine period from 1/19/2020 to 8/24/2020. The COVID-19 period has a lower average Finger PPG (-6 mg/dL) along with a lower sensor PPG (-12 mg/dL). By comparing these two periods, the two glucose waveforms are similar in shape (with high correlation coefficient) and the differences between these two curves at each time instant are quite close to each other (about 12 mg/dL glucose difference). As a result, during this period, the author achieved 0.3% to 0.4% lower HbA1C value. COVID-19 is more than 100x worse compared to the fatal respiratory illness known as severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS that occurred in 2003, in regard to its spreading speed, fatality number, and emotional impact on the world population. People belonging to the “vulnerable” groups, such as the elderly with existing chronic diseases and history of complications require special consideration to their health conditions and lifestyle management during the COVID-19 period. However, during this period, the author collected better results with his diabetes control in terms of both PPG and HbA1C values. The knowledge and experience he acquired in the past 10 years of medical research and his developed mathematical metabolism index model along with four diabetes prediction tools assisted him in many ways. As a result, he achieved a reduction of -6 mg/dL for finger PPG, -12 mg/dL for sensor PPG, -13 mg/dL for K-line PPG, and -0.3% to -0.4% for HbA1C. In fact, he turned the COVID-19 crisis into his health advantage!

Changes in treatment for NSTEMI in women and the elderly over the past 16 years in a large real-world population

2020 ◽  
Vol 316 ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonhard Riehle ◽  
Birga Maier ◽  
Steffen Behrens ◽  
Leonhard Bruch ◽  
Ralph Schoeller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
World Population ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Age-friendly city: future perspectives for the Brazilian cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-298
Author(s):  
Patricia de Oliveira Lopes ◽  
Simone Rezende da Silva ◽  
Tathianni Cristini da Silva ◽  
Yara Dadalti Fragoso ◽  
Angelina Zanesco
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
World Health ◽  
World Population ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Organization

ABSTRACT The world population is aging fast and not all cities are prepared to cope with the needs of the elderly people. Cities need to develop strategies for senior citizens including the aspects of health, nutrition, consumer protection, housing, transportation, environment, social welfare, income, employment, safety, and education. The World Health Organization (WHO) created a program dedicated to older adults called the age-friendly city. This program is about creating the environment and opportunities that enable older people to be and do what they value throughout their lives. Most of the elderly population lives in urban spaces, and aging represents a challenge as well as opportunities to the cities all over the world. Recently, only 16 Brazilian cities have received the seal of international certification by meeting the requirements stipulated by the WHO. In the State of Sao Paulo, only two cities have been qualified for this seal. Therefore, the aims of this article are (a) to provide a brief history of this important initiative taken by the WHO and (b) to urge the decision-makers of Brazilian municipalities to develop effective initiatives for their cities to be prepared for this demographic modification.

Herpes simplex virus esophagitis—clinical challenges in the elderly

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e240956
Author(s):  
Sara Fernandes Custódio ◽  
Catarina Félix ◽  
Fátima Cruz ◽  
Manuela Zita Veiga
Keyword(s):  
Herpes Simplex Virus ◽  
Herpes Simplex ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Past ◽  
Systemic Corticosteroids ◽  
Intravenous Acyclovir ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ionic Changes ◽  
Simplex Virus ◽  
High Degree

A 77-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of malaise, prostration, anorexia, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea. She had been taking systemic corticosteroids for the past year. During hospitalisation, renal insufficiency, ionic changes and liver function abnormalities were detected and corrected. However, the patient developed total dysphagia. UGE revealed multiple shallow ulcers below the cricopharyngeal level and in the distal oesophagus, with normal-appearing intervening mucosa. Histological examination allowed the diagnosis of herpes simplex virus esophagitis. Treatment with intravenous acyclovir was instituted for 14 days. In the elderly, herpetic esophagitis may present with non-specific complains, such as prostration or anorexia. In the reported case, dysphagia was only detected as a late symptom, addressing the importance of maintaining a high degree of suspicion for the diagnosis of herpes simplex virus esophagitis.

scholarly journals The overprescription of antidepressants and its impact on the elderly in Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muath Alduhishy
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Psychotropic Medication ◽  
Psychotropic Drugs ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Antidepressant Use

Abstract Introduction Psychopharmaceutical medications are noted for being one of the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide, which makes the issue of overprescribing them such a heated topic in medicine and psychiatry today. Method A literature review was made to investigate the topic of psychotropic medication prescriptions. The scope intended here is specific to antidepressant use, or rather overuse, in Australia, but it can be compared to the use of other psychotropic drugs in most western countries. The focus is directed towards the most vulnerable group of patients: the elderly. Results The past few decades have witnessed a surge in the use of psychotropic drugs, most notably antidepressants, in Australia and worldwide. This has numerous reasons as well as consequences, especially on vulnerable members of society. Conclusion It has been suggested that overprescription of antidepressants is fueled by the increase in the incidence of depression, stress and anxiety, or due to the way psychotropic medications are marketed. However, regardless of the validity of the said reasons, another explanation could be suggested: psychiatric disorders, namely depression, are being overdiagnosed on a considerable scale, probably leading to a list of significant adverse consequences that mostly affect the most vulnerable groups of patients. At the end, further rigorous research should certainly be undertaken to examine the extent and cost of overprescription of psychotropic drugs in society.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document