What's the difference between elderly and nonelderly?
Elderly
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(3) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(4) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(5) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(6) Furthermore, renal function in the elderly patient with CHF is markedly compromised.
(7) The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly.
(8) Since neutrophils are the first line of defense against infection the vulnerability to infection of the elderly may be due, at least in part, to age-related changes in neutrophils (PMNs).
(9) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
(10) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
(11) We used results from the 1986 National Mortality Follow-back Survey to estimate proportions of elderly decedents who were "fully functional" or "severely restricted" in the last year of life.
(12) We evaluated the effect of glycated albumin on phenytoin protein binding in 36 elderly (age range 63-94 yrs) patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) under diet management.
(13) Radiation exposure resulted in further significant decrease of T-cell count (but not B cells) in the elderly.
(14) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.
(15) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(16) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(17) Elderly humans also cannot maximally suppress ADH secretion when serum osmolality is reduced.
(18) The relationship between subjective state of health and 5-year survival in an elderly cohort was examined.
(19) The unique case of an elderly man presenting with right L2-3 radiculopathy is described.
(20) Non-inflammatory calcific disease of the mitral valve apparatus is a common finding in elderly patients.
Nonelderly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Referred patients were classified as elderly (greater than or equal to 62 years old) or nonelderly.
(2) The overall effect of tax reform was a slight shift in income tax burdens from the nonelderly to the elderly reversing a trend dating from the late 1970s.
(3) Adequate outcomes were noted in 70% of the pooled samples of elderly patients and 76% of the pooled samples of nonelderly patients.
(4) Using data from the Health Insurance Experiment (HIE), this article examines use of over-the-counter drugs (OTC) in a general, nonelderly population.
(5) Compared with nonelderly patients, elderly patients seeking emergency care are four times more likely to use ambulance services, five times more likely to be admitted to the hospital, five times more likely to be admitted to an intensive care bed, and six times more likely to receive comprehensive emergency services.
(6) Direct and total education effects were undiminished among elderly persons, whose income derived mainly from benefits and assets, as compared with the nonelderly subjects whose income was dominated by earnings; education explained more of the variance in adjusted income for the elderly group than for the nonelderly.
(7) Data on health care service utilization by a sample of 5554 nonelderly individuals over a 1-year period were used to define episodes of care.
(8) Nonelderly patients had more injuries (30.5 vs. 10.7%) and self-limited infectious disease (11.5 vs. 5.0%).
(9) The spectrum of illness and use patterns of 540 elderly patients (greater than or equal to 65 years) admitted to an emergency department (ED) were compared to an equal number of nonelderly patients.
(10) Although the spatial pattern of the elderly in Toledo, Ohio, is dissimilar from that of the nonelderly, they are widely distributed throughout the city.
(11) Our findings apply in the context of mandated comprehensive mental and general health coverage for a general nonelderly, nondisabled household population.
(12) The total number of individuals studied in carefully controlled, double-blind research studies of MAOIs, atypical antidepressants, or psychomotor stimulants are relatively few when compared with the number of individuals studied with tricyclic antidepressants, or the number of nonelderly subjects studied.
(13) Patients who were greater than or equal to 65 years old had a clinical and laboratory safety profile comparable to the nonelderly population.
(14) From each site, a stratified sample (approximately 7:3) of elderly (65 years and older) and nonelderly (21 to 64 years old) control ED patients treated during the same time period was contacted.
(15) The experiment enrolled a nonelderly population typical of those covered by employer health plans for periods up to 5 years.
(16) Pregnant women and "nonelderly" (less than 60 years old) men should be treated.
(17) Compared to the nonelderly, the old-old more often were admitted (47% versus 18%, P = .0001), stayed a longer time in the ED (three hours versus 1.9 hours, P = .0001), and incurred a higher charge ($324 versus $208, P = .0001) Twenty-nine percent of these old-old patients who were not initially admitted returned within 14 days (recidivated).
(18) In contrast, 82% of the nonelderly were better and only 4% were worse (P less than .01).
(19) The number of new prescriptions given to both groups in the emergency department was similar (elderly 41%; nonelderly, 31%).
(20) This analysis compares the safety and efficacy of nifedipine GITS in elderly patients (greater than or equal to 65 years of age) and nonelderly patients (adults less than 65 years of age).