Demographic Profile of Older Adults Using Wheeled Mobility Devices by Amol M. Karmarkar, Brad E. Dicianno, Rosemarie Cooper, Diane M. Collins, Judith T. Matthews, Alicia Koontz, Emily E. Teodorski, Rory A. Cooper

“…The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of wheeled mobility devices differed with respect to age, gender, residential setting, and health-related factors among older adults. A total of 723 adults ageing 60 and older are representing three cohorts, from nursing homes, the Center for Assistive Technology, and the wheelchair registry from the Human Engineering Research Laboratories. …”
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Postoperative Megarectum in an Adult Patient with Imperforate Anus and Rectourethral Fistula by Yoshifumi Nakayama, Toshihito Uehara, Masaki Akiyama, Noritaka Minagawa, Takayuki Torigoe, Naohiro Fujimoto

“…This report presents a surgical case of postoperative megarectum in an adult patient with imperforate anus/anorectal malformations. …”
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Motor and Perceptual Recovery in Adult Patients with Mild Intellectual Disability by Mariagiovanna Cantone, Maria A. Catalano, Giuseppe Lanza, Gaetano La Delfa, Raffaele Ferri, Manuela Pennisi, Rita Bella, Giovanni Pennisi, Alessia Bramanti

“…However, only a few data are available on the impact of the nonpharmacological interventions in adult patients with long-term hand motor deficit. …”
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What Factors Influence Patient Measures of Safety Among Adults? by Kim Y, Nam E

“…From February 7 to February 12, 2024, data were collected through a structured on-line questionnaire consisting of items about general characteristics, patient safety knowledge, nurse–patient interaction, experience of patient participation, willingness to participate in patient safety, and patient measures of safety involving 330 adults. Since there were no incomplete responses, data from all 330 participants were included in the final analysis. …”
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Terminal Complement Pathway Deficiency in an Adult Patient with Meningococcal Sepsis by F. Staels, W. Meersseman, P. Stordeur, K. Willekens, S. Van Loo, A. Corveleyn, I. Meyts, G. Meyfroidt, R. Schrijvers

“…We report the case of a young adult with IMD who was found to have a LCD, caused by a compound heterozygous mutation in C6. …”
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Adult BMI Change and Risk of Colon Cancer in Postmenopausal Women by Lyla Blake-Gumbs, Zhengyi Chen, Cheryl L. Thompson, Nathan A. Berger, Thomas C. Tucker, Li Li

“…We recently reported an association of adult BMI change with colon cancer risk. Here, we sought to further explore this association with respect to postmenopausal HRT use in a larger study population. …”
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Isolated tubercular dacryoadenitis in a non-immunocompromised healthy adult by Ajax Jossy, N Kaviyapriya, Nirupama Kasturi, Sree J Rekha

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Cardiac Fibroelastoma: A Rare Cause of Stroke in Young Adults by Ahmad Mirdamadi, Mohsen MirmohammadSadeghi, Mahfar Arasteh, Mojgan Gharipour

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Piperacillin-Induced Immune Hemolytic Anemia in an Adult with Cystic Fibrosis by Mahesh Bandara, David B. Seder, George Garratty, Regina M. Leger, Jonathan B. Zuckerman

“…We report a case of drug-induced immune hemolytic anemia (DIIHA) in an adult female with cystic fibrosis (CF), complicating routine treatment of a pulmonary exacerbation with intravenous piperacillin-tazobactam. …”
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Adrenal Ganglioneuroblastoma in Adults: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Stefano Benedini, Giorgia Grassi, Carmen Aresta, Antonietta Tufano, Luca Fabio Carmignani, Barbara Rubino, Livio Luzi, Sabrina Corbetta

“…Ganglioneuroblastoma is an uncommon malignant tumor, extremely rare in adults, particularly in females. This neoplasm is frequently localized in adrenal gland.…”
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Characterization of older adults' sexual life in a health area by Juan Miguel Benítez García, Julio César Camero Machín, Jesús Cuello Ávila, Juan Carlos Curbelo Fajardo

“…The universe of work was made up of 104 older adults and the sample consisted of 72 elderly, by means of intentional sampling by criteria. …”
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An Adult Patient with Ocular Myasthenia and Unusually Long Spontaneous Remission by Jasem Al-Hashel, Hanaa M. Rashad, Rossen T. Rousseff

“…He had one of the longest spontaneous remissions reported in the natural history of MG, particularly unusual for an adult with the disease.…”
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The Effects of POWER Training in Young and Older Adults after Stroke by Jennifer L. Hunnicutt, Stacey E. Aaron, Aaron E. Embry, Brian Cence, Patrick Morgan, Mark G. Bowden, Chris M. Gregory

“…Approximately 35,000 strokes occur annually in adults below the age of 40, and there is disappointingly little data describing their responses to rehabilitation. …”
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Evaluation of Hematocrit in Adults with Dengue by a Laboratory Information System by Duangjai Sahassananda, Vipa Thanachartwet, Putza Chonsawat, Benjamaporn Wongphan, Supat Chamnanchanunt, Manoon Surabotsophon, Varunee Desakorn

“…We prospectively enrolled 163 hospitalized adults with dengue, for whom 1,141 real-time complete blood count (CBC) results were obtained via a hematology analyzer and updated in the LIS database. …”
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Perceptions of Fairness of Support Between Older Parents and Adult Children by Anna Willems, Dimitri Mortelmans, Anina Vercruyssen

“…European research shows that when older persons do not have a partner (anymore), they rely on their adult children for care and support. Given that adult children frequently serve as primary providers of informal care, our study examines their perspectives and motivations to provide future care alongside the demands and expectations of their old parents. …”
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Adult Gross Motor Learning and Sleep: Is There a Mutual Benefit? by Monica Christova, Hannes Aftenberger, Raffaele Nardone, Eugen Gallasch

“…Thus, the present review focuses on sleep and gross motor learning (GML) in adults. The literature on the impact of sleep on GML, the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the influence of GML on sleep architecture were evaluated for this review. …”
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Factors affecting life satisfaction among retired older adults by Minkyung Gu, Jakyung Yu, Sohyune Sok

“…BackgroundThe population of older adult people is rapidly increasing in South Korea. …”
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Essential Microenvironment for Thymopoiesis is Preserved in Human Adult and Aged Thymus by J. Shiraishi, M. Utsuyama, S. Seki, H. Akamatsu, M. Sunamori, M. Kasai, K. Hirokawa

“…Normal human thymuses at various ages were immunohistologically examined in order to determine whether adult or aged thymus maintained the microenvironment for the T cell development and thymopoiesis was really ongoing. …”
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Vergence and Accommodative Dysfunctions in Emmetropic and Myopic Chinese Young Adults by Martin Ming-Leung Ma, Anna Chwee Hong Yeo, Mitchell Scheiman, Xiang Chen

“…To investigate the association between refractive error and common binocular vision and accommodative dysfunctions in Chinese adults and to report the percentage of these disorders in this sample population. …”
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Associations between exposure to volatile organic compounds with obesity in adults by Runmiao Wu, Lei Jia, Xu Zhu, Gongchang Guan, Junkui Wang, Rutai Hui, Meijuan Ma, Zhao Zhao, Hui Pang, Ling Zhu

“…Results: A total of 4950 adults were included in this analysis. The median age of the participants was 47 (33, 60) years, with 49.3 % being male. …”
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