Bandolier back issues from March 2005:
On clustering.(taking care of older people)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Older people are often a delight, sometimes frustrating. There are lots of them about, and there will be more before long, and at some time they will include us. So it is perhaps time to think about them and their problems a little more. For professionals helping with their health ...
Hands up anyone who is average.(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Bandolier 95 highlighted the propensity of some people in trials to do well, and some to do not so well. Yet often we are given average results where few if anyone is average. Perhaps trials are being reported better, but this clustering into good or not good responders is something seen ...
Cholesterol in older people.(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2005 ... One of the most frequently asked questions of Bandolier is about cholesterol in the elderly, and the role of statins in older people (over 70s for convenience), and particularly in the oldest old (over 80s). As best Bandolier knows, there is no simple answer, but there have been a number ...
Weight loss for knee arthritis.(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Knee arthritis is common in older people, and it is as much as anything a mechanical wearing out. We are reasonably sure that exercise early in life is not particularly related to knee arthritis (Bandolier 91), but being overweight may be, because of the extra load excess weight puts on ...
Fixed-dose combinations and adherence.(Report)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Bandolier has previously examined issues about adherence in its pages and on the Internet version, where there is a small library of evidence. Adherence to long-term therapy is low, perhaps not even 50%. A WHO report in 2003 highlighted that simplicity of dosing regimen and adverse effects ...
Hyperbaric oxygen for chronic wounds.(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Chronic wounds that take a long time to heal, or which recur, are quite common, particularly in older diabetics and people in hospital, and those with multiple health problems. Wound management varies according to the underlying cause of the wound, and there are many options. Despite ...
Prostate cancer with low PSA.(prostate specific antigen)(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2005 ... One of the problems with screening tests for cancer is that there is an assumption that if you have a negative test, you don't have cancer. Many people just don't realise that you can have cancer with a negative screening test. For prostate cancer serum PSA levels of 4 [micro]g/L or more ...
Dry eye incidence.(Clinical report)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Dry eye syndrome is common in older people, and affects quality of life. Until recently there have been no longitudinal population-based studies that might inform on the likely incidence in a primary care adult population. We now have one [1], and we can say that in people aged 48 to 91 ...