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Articles in March 1999 issue of Age and Ageing

• News and reviews
• Activity patterns in very old people: a survey of cognitively intact subjects aged 90 years or older
  by Pernilla K. Hilleras
• Correlation of serum L-carnitine and dehydro-epiandrosterone sulphate levels with age and sex in healthy adults
  by Kit Mui Chiu
• Inappropriate acute admissions from nursing homes
  by Jeremy Snape
• Stroke units: more trials needed
  by Sheldon Stone
• Predictors of functional status in older people living at home
  by Francois Beland
• Relationships between age, dehydro-epiandrosterone sulphate and plasma glucose in healthy men
  by Nihal Thomas
• Community hospitals … and district general hospitals
  by J. George
• Accuracy of diagnosis in patients with presumed Parkinson's disease
  by Jolyon Meara
• Development of an activities of daily living scale to screen for dementia in an illiterate rural older population in India
  by Gerda G. Fillenbaum
• Functional integrity of the CD28 co-stimulatory pathway in T lymphocytes from elderly subjects
  by Maria T. Vidan
• Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine, 3rd edition
  by Peter H. Millard
• Age: a critical factor in cancer management. A prospective comparative study of 400 patients
  by Jose Luis Firvida
• Validity and reliability of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-20 questionnaire as a measure of quality of life in elderly people living at home
  by Daniel J. Carver
• Nasal colonization by Staphylococcus aureus in active, independent, community seniors
  by Yee-Lean Lee
• Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 5th edition
  by Arup Banerjee
• Factors associated with prolonged symptoms and severe disease due to Clostridium difficile
  by Lorraine Kyne
• Lactose malabsorption and rate of bone loss in older women
  by Ailsa Goulding
• A case of coprophagia presenting with sialadenitis
  by Christina A. Donnellan
• Clinical significance of delirium subtypes in older people
  by Shaun T. O'Keeffe
• Small bowel bacterial overgrowth in subjects living in residential care homes
  by STEPHEN J. LEWlS
• Collagenous colitis: a modifiable cause of diarrhoea in older people
  by Mark Mackenzie
• The prognosis of falls in elderly people living at home
  by Ian P. Donald
• Costing for long-term care: the development of Scottish health service resource utilization groups as a casemix instrument
  by James Urquhart
• Declaration of Yuste
  by Michael Lye
• Carotid sinus hypersensitivity—a modifiable risk factor for fractured neck of femur
  by Christopher R. Ward
• Validity of reported age and centenarian prevalence in New England
  by Thomas T. Perls
• Air-terminal stress and the older traveller
  by Ian D. Cox
• Residential status and risk of hip fracture
  by Robyn Norton
• Mortality trends of elderly people in Taiwan from 1974 to 1994
  by Kai-Kuen Leung
• Agitation and aggressiveness in elderly people at home
  by Catherine Helmer
• Serological response to influenza vaccination and nutritional and functional status of patients in geriatric medical long-term care
  by Jan M. Potter
• A preliminary study of dietary aluminium intake and risk of Alzheimer's disease
  by Mary A. M. Rogers
• Anxiety as the reason why previous psychiatric illness is a risk factor for dementia
  by Christopher G. Krasucki