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  1. Development and evolution of a two-day intensive resident experience in geriatric medicine
  2. Life-space mobility predicts hospitalizations for persons with chronic lung disease.
  3. Human neuromuscular aging: Sex differences revealed at the myocellular level
  4. Digoxin use and lower risk of 30-day all-cause readmission in older patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction receiving β-blockers
  5. Similar clinical benefits from below-target and target dose enalapril in patients with heart failure in the SOLVD Treatment trial
  6. Heart Rate and Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
  7. Digoxin and 30-Day All-Cause Readmission in Long-Term Care Residents Hospitalized for Heart Failure
  8. Innovation in a Learning Health Care System: Veteran-Directed Home- and Community-Based Services
  9. Isolated diastolic hypertension and incident heart failure in community-dwelling older adults: Insights from the Cardiovascular Health Study
  10. Increasing Veterans’ Hospice Use: The Veterans Health Administration’s Focus On Improving End-Of-Life Care
  11. Geographic variation in mental health care disparities among racially/ethnically diverse adults with psychiatric disorders
  12. Systolic–diastolic hypertension versus isolated systolic hypertension and incident heart failure in older adults: Insights from the Cardiovascular Health Study
  13. Life-Space Mobility Change Predicts 6-Month Mortality
  14. Lack of evidence of lower 30-day all-cause readmission in Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction discharged on spironolactone
  15. Association of Multimorbidity with Mortality and Healthcare Utilization in Chronic Kidney Disease
  16. Neighborhood Disadvantage and Life-Space Mobility Are Associated with Incident Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  17. Association of 30-Day All-Cause Readmission with Long-Term Outcomes in Hospitalized Older Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure
  18. Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibition and Lower 30-Day All-Cause Readmission in Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure
  19. Comparison of Posthospitalization Function and Community Mobility in Hospital Mobility Program and Usual Care Patients
  20. Vitamin D and incident urinary incontinence in older adults
  21. Life-Space Assessment composite score rationale
  22. The Impact of Veteran Status on Life-Space Mobility among Older Black and White Men in the Deep South
  23. The Association Between Life-Space and Health Care Utilization in Older Adults with Heart Failure
  24. Risk of Heart Failure and Death After Prolonged Smoking Cessation
  25. Discharge Hospice Referral and Lower 30-Day All-Cause Readmission in Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure
  26. Beta-blocker Use and 30-day All-cause Readmission in Medicare Beneficiaries with Systolic Heart Failure
  27. Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control in Older Adults: Results From the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging
  28. Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With Advanced Chronic Systolic Heart Failure Receiving Care at the Veterans Affairs Versus Other Hospitals
  29. Nondisease-Specific Problems and All-Cause Mortality among Older Adults with CKD: The REGARDS Study
  30. Comparison of In-Person and Telephone Administration of the Mini-Mental State Examination in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging
  31. Benzodiazepine (BZD) use in community-dwelling older adults: Longitudinal associations with mobility, functioning, and pain
  32. Spironolactone Use and Higher Hospital Readmission for Medicare Beneficiaries With Heart Failure, Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction <45%, and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate <45 ml/min/1.73 m2
  33. Beta-blockers in older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: Class, dosage, and outcomes
  34. Life-Space Mobility Declines Associated with Incident Falls and Fractures
  35. Nutritional Risk and Body Mass Index Predict Hospitalization, Nursing Home Admissions, and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the UAB Study of Aging With 8.5 Years of Follow-Up
  36. Community Mobility Among Older Adults With Reduced Kidney Function: A Study of Life-Space
  37. Digoxin and 30-day All-cause Hospital Admission in Older Patients with Chronic Diastolic Heart Failure
  38. Digoxin Use and Lower 30-day All-cause Readmission for Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure
  39. Racial and Sex Differences in Associations Between Activities of Daily Living and Cognition in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  40. Correlates of ADL difficulty in a large hemodialysis cohort
  41. Prevention of heart failure in older adults may require higher levels of physical activity than needed for other cardiovascular events
  42. Measuring Symptoms in Community-dwelling Older Adults
  43. Religiosity and Function Among Community-Dwelling Older Adult Survivors of Cancer
  44. Symptom Burden Predicts Nursing Home Admissions Among Older Adults
  45. Life-Space Mobility Predicts Nursing Home Admission Over 6 Years
  46. Digoxin Reduces 30-day All-cause Hospital Admission in Older Patients with Chronic Systolic Heart Failure
  47. Orthostatic Hypotension and Incident Heart Failure in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  48. Effects of enalapril in systolic heart failure patients with and without chronic kidney disease: Insights from the SOLVD Treatment trial
  49. Low Hemoglobin Levels and Recurrent Falls in U.S. Men and Women: Prospective Findings from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Cohort
  50. Design and rationale of studies of neurohormonal blockade and outcomes in diastolic heart failure using OPTIMIZE-HF registry linked to Medicare data
  51. Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Outcomes in Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction
  52. Nondisease-Specific Problems and All-Cause Mortality in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study
  53. Aldosterone Antagonists and Outcomes in Real-World Older Patients With Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction
  54. Opportunities in rehabilitation research
  55. Baseline characteristics, quality of care, and outcomes of younger and older Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure: Findings from the Alabama Heart Failure Project
  56. Functional status, life-space mobility, and quality of life: a longitudinal mediation analysis
  57. Physical Impairment Is Associated With Nursing Home Admission for Older Adults in Disadvantaged But Not Other Neighborhoods: Results From the UAB Study of Aging
  58. Angiotensin receptor blockers and outcomes in real-world older patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: a propensity-matched inception cohort clinical effectiveness study
  59. Symptom Burden Predicts Hospitalization Independent of Comorbidity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  60. Predicting the Trajectories of Perceived Pain Intensity in Southern Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  61. Dietary patterns and diet quality among diverse older adults: The university of Alabama at Birmingham study of aging
  62. In-Hospital Cardiology Consultation and Evidence-Based Care for Nursing Home Residents With Heart Failure
  63. Impairment of activities of daily living and incident heart failure in community-dwelling older adults
  64. Inflammatory biomarkers as predictors of hospitalization and death in community-dwelling older adults
  65. Indicators of Childhood Quality of Education in Relation to Cognitive Function in Older Adulthood
  66. Renin-Angiotensin Inhibition in Systolic Heart Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease
  67. Wearing the Garment of Widowhood: Variations in Time Since Spousal Loss Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  68. Predicting the trajectories of depressive symptoms among southern community-dwelling older adults: The role of religiosity
  69. Life-Space Mobility in Mexican Americans Aged 75 and Older
  70. The Influence of Community and the Built Environment on Physical Activity
  71. A Propensity-Matched Study of the Comparative Effectiveness of Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Versus Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Heart Failure Patients Age ≥65 Years
  72. Age-Specific Associations of Reduced Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate with Concurrent Chronic Kidney Disease Complications
  73. Emergency Department Visits by Nursing Home Residents in the United States
  74. Factors that differentiate level of ambulation in hospitalised older adults
  75. Left Ventricular Diastolic Function and Exercise Capacity in Community-Dwelling Adults ≥65 Years of Age Without Heart Failure
  76. Living With an Aging Parent
  77. Predictors of Overnight Hospital Admission in Older African American and Caucasian Medicare Beneficiaries
  78. Predictors of 4-Year Retention Among African American and White Community-Dwelling Participants in the UAB Study of Aging
  79. Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Activities of Daily Living in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  80. Oral Health-Related Quality of Life and Life-Space Mobility in Community-dwelling Older Adults
  81. Life-space mobility is associated with frequency of hospitalization in adults with cystic fibrosis
  82. Epidemiology of stroke in chronic heart failure patients with normal sinus rhythm: Findings from the DIG stroke sub-study
  83. Normative Performance on an Executive Clock Drawing Task (CLOX) in a Community-Dwelling Sample of Older Adults
  84. Incidence and Risk Factors for Fecal Incontinence in Black and White Older Adults: A Population-Based Study
  85. Prevalence and Correlates of Nocturia in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  86. The association of nocturia with incident falls in an elderly community-dwelling cohort
  87. Hypokalemia and Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure and Chronic Kidney Disease
  88. Diabetes and Cognitive Decline: Investigating the Potential Influence of Factors Related to Health Disparities
  89. The Underrecognized Epidemic of Low Mobility During Hospitalization of Older Adults
  90. Value of Orthopnea, Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea, and Medications in Prospective Population Studies of Incident Heart Failure
  91. Association of diuretic use and overactive bladder syndrome in older adults: A propensity score analysis
  92. Transportation Difficulty of Black and White Rural Older Adults
  93. Trajectories of Life-Space Mobility After Hospitalization
  94. Isolated Systolic Hypertension and Incident Heart Failure in Older Adults
  95. A Propensity-Matched Study of the Association of Peripheral Arterial Disease With Cardiovascular Outcomes in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  96. Validation of use of wireless monitors to measure levels of mobility during hospitalization
  97. Life-Space and Cognitive Decline in a Community-Based Sample of African American and Caucasian Older Adults
  98. Kidney Function and Cognitive Impairment in US Adults: The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study
  99. Marital Status and Health: Exploring Pre-Widowhood
  100. Incident Heart Failure Hospitalization and Subsequent Mortality in Chronic Heart Failure: A Propensity-Matched Study
  101. Population Based Study of Incidence and Predictors of Urinary Incontinence in Black and White Older Adults
  102. Religiousness and Longitudinal Trajectories in Elders' Functional Status
  103. Correlates of Urinary, Fecal, and Dual Incontinence in Older African-American and White Men and Women
  104. Education and reading ability in relation to differences in cognitive screening between African American and Caucasian older adults
  105. Unintentional Weight Loss Predicts Decline in Activities of Daily Living Function and Life-Space Mobility Over 4 Years Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  106. Body Mass Index, Weight Loss, and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  107. Association Between Aspects of Oral Health–Related Quality of Life and Body Mass Index in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  108. Self-Reported Health and Driving Cessation in Community-Dwelling Older Drivers
  109. Bereavement Among African American and White Older Adults
  110. Substantial Daily Pain Among Nursing Home Residents
  111. Barriers to mobility during hospitalization from the perspectives of older patients and their nurses and physicians
  112. Clock Drawing Phenotypes in Community-Dwelling African Americans and Caucasians: Results from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging
  113. Trends in Acute Myocardial Infarction in 4 US States Between 1992 and 2001
  114. Pain and pain medication use in community-dwelling older adults
  115. Functional Limitations and Religious Service Attendance among African American and White Older Adults
  116. The Relationship Between Sociodemographic Factors and Oral Health–Related Quality of Life in Dentate and Edentulous Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  117. The Feminization of Bereavement Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  118. Heart failure, chronic diuretic use, and increase in mortality and hospitalization: an observational study using propensity score methods
  119. Predictors of regaining ambulatory ability during hospitalization
  120. Prevalence and Correlates of Fecal Incontinence in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  121. Social isolation, support, and capital and nutritional risk in an older sample: ethnic and gender differences
  122. Racial similarities and differences in predictors of mobility change over eighteen months
  123. Myogenic protein expression before and after resistance loading in 26- and 64-yr-old men and women
  124. University of Alabama School of Medicine
  125. Impact of atrial fibrillation on mortality and readmission in older adults hospitalized with heart failure
  126. Diagnosis of heart failure in older adults: predictive value of dyspnea at rest
  127. Outcomes of early extubation after bypass surgery in the elderly
  128. Alabama Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Project
  129. Measuring Life-Space Mobility in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
  130. Religiosity and mental health in southern, community-dwelling older adults
  131. SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE IN LONG-TERM MORTALITY IN ELDERLY HEART FAILURE PATIENTS WITH PRESERVED LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC FUNCTION
  132. Association of consultation between generalists and cardiologists with quality and outcomes of heart failure care
  133. Clinical Correlates of Isolated Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction Among Hospitalized Older Heart Failure Patients
  134. Predictors of nursing home admission for older adults hospitalized with heart failure
  135. Heart Failure Mortality among Older Medicare Beneficiaries: Association with Left Ventricular Function Evaluation and Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Inhibitor Use
  136. Alcohol and Congestive Heart Failure
  137. Racial Variations in Cardiology Care Among Hospitalized Older Heart Failure Patients
  138. Quality of Care of Nursing Home Residents Hospitalized With Heart Failure
  139. Survival Benefits of Angiotensin‐Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Older Heart Failure Patients with Perceived Contraindications
  140. Correlates and outcomes of preserved left ventricular systolic function among older adults hospitalized with heart failure
  141. A Multidisciplinary Model of Health Promotion Incorporating Spirituality Into a Successful Aging Intervention With African American and White Elderly Groups
  142. Inappropriate Use of Digoxin in Older Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients
  143. Pressure Ulcers: Using What We Know to Improve Quality of Care
  144. Quality of Care for Hospitalized Medicare Patients at Risk for Pressure Ulcers
  145. Alabama Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Project
  146. Prophylactic value of preincision intra-aortic balloon pump: Analysis of a statewide experience
  147. Understanding Racial Variation in the Use of Coronary Revascularization Procedures
  148. Relation of Low Body Mass to Death and Stroke in the Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program
  149. Exploratory study of incident vehicle crashes among olderdrivers
  150. Alabama Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Cooperative Project: baseline data
  151. A Congestive Heart Failure Project with Measured Improvements in Care
  152. Effects of Timely Antibiotic Administration and Culture Acquisition on the Treatment of Urinary Tact Infection
  153. Improving the Quality of Care for Medicare Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction
  154. A Preliminary Assessment of the Medical and Functional Factors Associated with Vehicle Crashes by Older Adults
  155. Pressure Ulcer Prevalence, Incidence, Risk Factors, and Impact
  156. Risk-Adjustment Methods Based on Health Status and Functional Status
  157. Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers and Risk of Death
  158. Association Between Alzheimer's Disease and Bound Autochthonous IgM on T Cells
  159. Comprehensive geriatric assessment in medicare managed care: The geriatrician's calling card
  160. Pressure Ulcer Risk Factors Among Hospitalized Patients With Activity Limitation
  161. Age, Race, and Gender Variation in the Utilization of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Angioplasty in SHEP
  162. A Phase II Study to Evaluate Recombinant Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-BB in the Treatment of Stage 3 and 4 Pressure Ulcers
  163. Age-Related Variability in the Use of Cardiovascular Imaging Procedures
  164. Pressure Ulcers among the Elderly
  165. Air-Fluidized Beds or Conventional Therapy for Pressure Sores
  166. Pressure Sores Among Hospitalized Patients
  167. Physician Tolerance for Uncertainty