Journal Articles 2003

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Bennett, H. P., Piguet, O., Grayson, D. A., Creasey, H., Waite, L. M., Broe, G. A., Halliday, G. M. A 6-year study of cognition and spatial function in the demented and non-demented elderly: the Sydney Older Persons Study. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2003; 16 (4):181-6 [PMID 14512711]

Braet, F., Muller, M., Vekemans, K., Wisse, E., Le Couteur, D. G. Antimycin A-induced defenestration in rat hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells. Hepatology 2003; 38 (2):394-402 [PMID 12883483]

Broe, M., Hodges, J. R., Schofield, E., Shepherd, C. E., Kril, J. J., Halliday, G. M. Staging disease severity in pathologically confirmed cases of frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2003; 60 (6):1005-11
[PMID 12654969]

Brooks, W. S., Kwok, J. B. J., Kril, J. J., Broe, G. A., Blumbergs, P. C., Tannenberg, A. E., Lamont, P. J., Hedges, P., Schofield, P. R. Alzheimer's disease with spastic paraparesis and `cotton wool' plaques: two pedigrees with PS-1 exon 9 deletions. Brain 2003; 126 (4):783-91 [Ingentaconnect]

Brooks, W. S., Kwok, J. B., Kril, J. J., Broe, G. A., Blumbergs, P. C., Tannenberg, A. E., Lamont, P. J., Hedges, P., Schofield, P. R. Alzheimer's disease with spastic paraparesis and 'cotton wool' plaques: two pedigrees with PS-1 exon 9 deletions. Brain 2003; 126 (Pt 4):783-91 [PMID 12615638]

Cameron, I. D., Cumming, R. G., Kurrle, S. E., Quine, S., Lockwood, K., Salkeld, G., Finnegan, T. A randomised trial of hip protector use by frail older women living in their own homes. Injury Prevention 2003; 9 (2):138-41 [PMID 12810740]

Clemson, L., Cumming, R. G., Heard, R. The development of an assessment to evaluate behavioral factors associated with falling. American Journal of Occupational Therapy 2003; 57 (4):380-8
[PMID 12911079]

Cogger, V. C., Warren, A., Fraser, R., Ngu, M., McLean, A. J., Le Couteur, D. G. Hepatic sinusoidal pseudocapillarization with aging in the non-human primate. Experimental Gerontology 2003; 38 (10):1101-7 [PMID 14580863]

Cogger, V. C., Fraser, R., Le Couteur, D. G. Liver dysfunction and heart failure (Letter). American Journal of Cardiology 2003; 91 (11):1399 [PMID 12767448]

Creasey, H. Cholinesterase inhabitors and Alzheimer's disease. Medicine Today 2003; 4 (7):91-2

Cumming, R. G., Le Couteur, D. G. Benzodiazepines and risk of hip fractures in older people: a review of the evidence. CNS Drugs 2003; 17 (11):825-37 [PMID 12921493]

Eldelbrock, D., Waite, L. M., Broe, G., .A., Grayson, D., Creasey, H. The relation between unpaid support and the use of formal health services: the Sydney Older Persons Study. Australasian Journal on Ageing 2003; 22 (1):2-8

Everitt, A. V. Food restriction, pituitary hormones and ageing. Biogerontology 2003; 4 (1):47-50
[PMID 12652188]

Fisher, A., A., McLean, A., J., Davis, M. W., Le Couteur, D. G. A Multicenter, Case-Control Study of the Effects of Antihypertensive Therapy on Orthostatic Hypotension, Postprandial Hypotension, and Falls in Octo- and Nonagenarians in Residential Care Facilities. Current Therapeutic Research 2003; 64 (3):206-14
[PMID Science Direct]

Fraser, R., Le Couteur, D. G., Warren, A., Cogger, V. C., Bertolino, P., Smith, M. The liver sieve and gene therapy (Comment/Letter). Blood 2003; 101 (8):3338; author reply -9 [PMID 12672697]

Gillespie, L. D., Gillespie, W. J., Robertson, M. C., Lamb, S. E., Cumming, R. G., Rowe, B. H. Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2003; 2003 (4):CD000340 [PMID 14583918]

Halliday, G. M., Double, K. L., Macdonald, V., Kril, J. J. Identifying severely atrophic cortical subregions in Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging 2003; 24 (6):797-806 [PMID 12927762]

Harris, M. J., Arias, I. M. FIC1, a P-type ATPase linked to cholestatic liver disease, has homologues (ATP8B2 and ATP8B3) expressed throughout the body. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 2003; 1633 (2):127-31 [PMID 12880872]

Hilmer, S. N., Naganathan, V., Le Couteur, D. Why do physicians choose to train in geriatic medicine? Australasian Journal on Ageing 2003; 22 (3):162-4

Hodges, J. R., Davies, R., Xuereb, J., Kril, J., Halliday, G. Survival in frontotemporal dementia. Neurology 2003; 61 (3):349-54 [PMID 12913196]

Ivers, R. Q., Cumming, R. G., Mitchell, P., Simpson, J. M., Peduto, A. J. Visual risk factors for hip fracture in older people. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003; 51 (3):356-63 [PMID 12588579]

Janu, M. R., Creasey, H., Grayson, D. A., Cullen, J. S., Whyte, S., Brooks, W. S., Waite, L. M., Broe, G. A. Laboratory results in the elderly: the Sydney Older Persons Study. Annals of Clinical Biochemistry 2003; 40 (Pt 3):274-9 [PMID 12803842]

Kaffes, A., Cullen, J., Mitchell, H., Katelaris, P. H. Effect of Helicobacter pylori infection and low-dose aspirin use on iron stores in the elderly. Journal of Gastroenterology Hepatology 2003; 18 (9):1024-8
[PMID 12911657]

Kwok, J. B., Halliday, G. M., Brooks, W. S., Dolios, G., Laudon, H., Murayama, O., Hallupp, M., Badenhop, R. F., Vickers, J., Wang, R., Naslund, J., Takashima, A., Gandy, S. E., Schofield, P. R. Presenilin-1 mutation L271V results in altered exon 8 splicing and Alzheimer's disease with non-cored plaques and no neuritic dystrophy. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2003; 278 (9):6748-54 [PMID 12493737]

Le Couteur, D. G., Fisher, A. A., Davis, M. W., McLean, A. J. Postprandial systolic blood pressure responses of older people in residential care: association with risk of falling. Gerontology 2003; 49 (4):260-4
[PMID 12792163]

Li, L. X., Crotty, K. A., Palmer, A. A., Kril, J. J., Scolyer, R. A., Thompson, J. F., McCarthy, S. W. Argyrophilic staining of nucleolar organizer region count and morphometry in benign and malignant melanocytic lesions. American Journal of Dermatopathology 2003; 25 (3):190-7 [PMID 12775980]

Li, L. X., Crotty, K. A., Scolyer, R. A., Thompson, J. F., Kril, J. J., Palmer, A. A., McCarthy, S. W. Use of multiple cytometric markers improves discrimination between benign and malignant melanocytic lesions: a study of DNA microdensitometry, karyometry, argyrophilic staining of nucleolar organizer regions and MIB1-Ki67 immunoreactivity. Melanoma Research 2003; 13 (6):581-6 [PMID 14646621]

Lord, S. R., March, L. M., Cameron, I. D., Cumming, R. G., Schwarz, J., Zochling, J., Chen, J. S., Makaroff, J., Sitoh, Y. Y., Lau, T. C., Brnabic, A., Sambrook, P. N. Differing risk factors for falls in nursing home and intermediate-care residents who can and cannot stand unaided. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003; 51 (11):1645-50 [PMID 14687397]

McLean, A. J., Cogger, V. C., Chong, G. C., Warren, A., Markus, A. M., Dahlstrom, J. E., Le Couteur, D. G. Age-related pseudocapillarization of the human liver. Journal of Pathology 2003; 200 (1):112-7
[PMID 12692849]

Mitchell, P., Smith, W., Cumming, R. G., Flood, V., Rochtchina, E., Wang, J. J. Nutritional factors in the development of age-related eye disease. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2003; 12 Suppl:S5 [PMID 15023590]

Naganathan, V., Sambrook, P. Gender differences in volumetric bone density: a study of opposite-sex twins. Osteoporosis International 2003; 14 (7):564-9 [PMID 12830370]

Naganathan, V., Cumming, R. Setting up a specialised service for falls and fracture prevention (Editorial). Age Ageing 2003; 32 (5):471-2 [PMID 12957991]

Panchapakesan, J., Mitchell, P., Tumuluri, K., Rochtchina, E., Foran, S., Cumming, R. G. Five year incidence of cataract surgery: the Blue Mountains Eye Study. Br J Ophthalmol 2003; 87 (2):168-72
[PMID 12543745]

Park, G. J., Katelaris, P. H., Jones, D. B., Seow, F., Le Couteur, D. G., Ngu, M. C. Validity of the 13C-caffeine breath test as a noninvasive, quantitative test of liver function. Hepatology 2003; 38 (5):1227-36
[PMID 14578861]

Peisah, C., Kril, J., Hickie, I. Does cerebrovascular disease underpin depression in patients with neurodegenerative disease? Brain Aging 2003; 3 (1):22-7 [Brain Aging]

Piguet, O., Ridley, L., Grayson, D. A., Bennett, H. P., Creasey, H., Lye, T. C., Broe, G. A. Are MRI white matter lesions clinically significant in the 'old-old'? Evidence from the Sydney Older Persons Study. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2003; 15 (3):143-50 [PMID 12584429]

Piguet, O., Grayson, D. A., Creasey, H., Bennett, H. P., Brooks, W. S., Waite, L. M., Broe, G. A. Vascular risk factors, cognition and dementia incidence over 6 years in the Sydney Older Persons Study. Neuroepidemiology 2003; 22 (3):165-71 [PMID 12711848]

Port, L., Center, J., Briffa, N. K., Nguyen, T., Cumming, R., Eisman, J. Osteoporotic fracture: missed opportunity for intervention. Osteoporos Int 2003; 14 (9):780-4 [PMID 12904835]

Roe, J. P., Taylor, T. K., Edmunds, I. A., Cumming, R. G., Ruff, S. J., Plunkett-Cole, M. D., Mikk, M., Jones, R. F. Spinal and spinal cord injuries in horse riding: the New South Wales experience 1976-1996. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2003; 73 (5):331-4 [PMID 12752291]

Sambrook, P. N., Kotowicz, M., Nash, P., Styles, C. B., Naganathan, V., Henderson-Briffa, K. N., Eisman, J. A., Nicholson, G. C. Prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis: a comparison of calcitriol, vitamin D plus calcium, and alendronate plus calcium. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2003; 18 (5):919-24 [PMID 12733733]

Sangalli, M. R., McLean, A. J., Peek, M. J., Rivory, L. P., Le Couteur, D. G. Carbon monoxide disposition and permeability-surface area product in the foetal circulation of the perfused term human placenta. Placenta 2003; 24 (1):8-11 [PMID 12495653]

Schofield, E., Kersaitis, C., Shepherd, C. E., Kril, J. J., Halliday, G. M. Severity of gliosis in Pick's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration: tau-positive glia differentiate these disorders. Brain 2003; 126 (Pt 4):827-40 [PMID 12615642]

Shanley, C. Falls and injury reduction in residential aged care: translating research into practice. Contemporary Nurse 2003; 15 (1-2):81-93 [PMID 14649511]

Sitoh, Y. Y., Lau, T. C., Zochling, J., Cumming, R. G., Lord, S. R., Schwarz, J., March, L. M., Sambrook, P. N., Cameron, I. D. Proxy assessment of health-related quality of life in the frail elderly (letter). Age Ageing 2003; 32 (4):459-61 [PMID 12851196]

Stanford, P. M., Shepherd, C. E., Halliday, G. M., Brooks, W. S., Schofield, P. W., Brodaty, H., Martins, R. N., Kwok, J. B., Schofield, P. R. Mutations in the tau gene that cause an increase in three repeat tau and frontotemporal dementia. Brain 2003; 126 (Pt 4):814-26 [PMID 12615641]

Walters, N. B., Egan, G. F., Kril, J. J., Kean, M., Waley, P., Jenkinson, M., Watson, J. D. In vivo identification of human cortical areas using high-resolution MRI: an approach to cerebral structure-function correlation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2003; 100 (5):2981-6 [PMID 12601170]

Wang, J. J., Mitchell, P., Cumming, R. G., Smith, W. Visual impairment and nursing home placement in older Australians: the Blue Mountains Eye Study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2003; 10 (1):3-13
[PMID 12607154]

Younan, C., Mitchell, P., Cumming, R., Rochtchina, E., Panchapakesan, J., Tumuluri, K. Cardiovascular disease, vascular risk factors and the incidence of cataract and cataract surgery: the Blue Mountains Eye Study. Ophthalmic Epidemiol 2003; 10 (4):227-40 [PMID 14628965]