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For older adults just admitted to the hospital, how well they can stand up from a chair 30 times in 30 seconds is linked to their walking and balance, but the link isn’t strong enough to use the test...
For older people who aren't very mobile and end up in the ER, a test called DEMMI seems better at tracking small improvements in movement than the simple chair-stand test — especially for those who...
A lot of older patients in the hospital can't do even one sit-to-stand in 30 seconds, so this test isn't great at tracking whether they're getting worse or better when they start off very weak.
For older adults in the ER, how many times they can stand up from a chair in 30 seconds is closely linked to their overall mobility — each extra stand means nearly a 5-point boost in their mobility...
If an older person in the hospital can't stand up from a chair more than 8 times in 30 seconds, they're likely to need more help with everyday tasks like bathing, dressing, or shopping compared to...
If a smart chair measures how much weight each leg carries when someone stands up, it might spot if one side is weaker — a clue about past or future muscle and joint problems.
When you stand up from a smart chair that measures your weight over time, it can figure out how fast your weight shifts—and that speed might tell us how strong your legs are.
A smart chair that measures how fast someone stands up and sits down five times gives slightly different times than when a person uses a stopwatch — on average, it records about 2.7 seconds faster,...
A smart chair that counts how many times you stand up and sit down in 30 seconds gives almost the same number as when a doctor counts it by hand — the difference is less than one rep on average.
This smart chair can count how many times you stand up and sit down using sensors in its legs — no wearables or cameras needed.
Older adults with heart disease who took a low dose of a drug called rapamycin every day for 3 months didn’t get less frail, even though the drug changed some aging-related markers in their bodies.
Taking a low dose of a drug called rapamycin every day for three months might have increased a protein in the blood linked to healing and inflammation in older people with heart disease — but we’re...
Older guys with heart disease who took a low dose of a drug called rapamycin every day for 12 weeks showed signs that their body fat was aging more slowly.
Older adults with heart disease who took a low dose of a drug called rapamycin every day for 12 weeks saw their inflammation levels go down, which might help slow aging-related damage in the body.
Taking low doses of a drug called rapamycin once a week doesn’t seem to reduce belly fat in healthy older adults after nearly a year, whether they take 5 mg or 10 mg — it’s about the same as taking a...
Taking rapamycin once a week for a year might be safe for healthy older adults, with no more side effects than a sugar pill — so it could be a candidate for slowing normal aging.
Taking a low weekly dose of a drug called rapamycin for a year might make older adults feel healthier overall, based on their own reports.
Taking a low weekly dose of a drug called rapamycin for a year might help reduce pain in healthy women over 50, based on how they reported feeling.
Taking a low weekly dose of a drug called rapamycin for a year might help older women build more lean muscle, which could slow down muscle loss as they age.
About 9 out of every 100 babies born to mothers with HIV—who don’t get infected themselves—still get very sick from infections in their first year, and nearly a quarter of those serious infections...
Babies exposed to HIV but not infected have the same chance of getting serious viral infections in their first year, no matter how weak their mom's immune system was during pregnancy. This suggests...
If a mom with HIV has a weaker immune system during pregnancy, her baby — even if not infected with HIV — might be more likely to get serious bacterial infections in the first year of life,...
In female mice that exercised with weighted wheels for 8 weeks, giving rapamycin three times a week blocked a key muscle signaling pathway, but giving it just once a week let the pathway bounce back...
Even when mice are given a drug that blocks a key muscle growth pathway, running with added weight still makes their leg muscles bigger — showing that exercise can build muscle even when that pathway...