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Body Mass Index
For adults age 18 years and older, the body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is one of the best indirect indicators of degree of obesity. Calculated as weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in meters) squared (kg/m2), adults are typically ...
- Aging and the Brain
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Apolipoprotein E
- Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease
- Delirium and Confusional States
- Imaging of the Brain
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Mental Status Assessment
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Neurobiology of Aging
- Neurological Disorders
- Pick's Disease
- Stroke
- Syncope
- Vascular Dementia
- Vascular Depression
- Diseases and Medical Conditions
- Accelerated Aging Syndromes
- Anemia
- Aneurysms
- Arrhythmias
- Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Diseases
- Calcium Disorders of Aging
- Cancer
- Cancer Prevention and Screening
- Cancer, Common Types of
- Cataracts
- Cellulitis
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Diabetes
- Ear Diseases
- Eye Diseases
- Foot Problems
- Fractures in Older Adults
- Gastrointestinal Aging
- HIV and AIDS
- Hypertension
- Iatrogenic Disease
- Immune Function
- Incontinence
- Infections, Bladder and Kidney
- Infectious Diseases
- Kidney Aging and Diseases
- Menopause and Hormone Therapy
- Men's Health
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Musculoskeletal Aging: Inflammation
- Musculoskeletal Aging: Osteoarthritis
- Oral Health
- Osteoporosis
- Pneumonia and Tuberculosis
- Pressure Ulcers
- Sarcopenia
- Shingles
- Skin Neoplasms, Benign and Malignant
- Spinal Stenosis
- Systemic Infections
- Temperature Regulation
- Thyroid Disease
- Valvular Heart Disease
- Venous Stasis Ulcers
- Wound Healing
- Drug-Related Issues
- Function and Syndromes
- Mental Health and Psychology
- Agitation
- Alcohol Use and Abuse
- Anxiety Disorders
- Behavioral Disorders in Dementia
- Bereavement and Grief
- Control
- Delirium and Confusional States
- Depression and Other Mood Disorders
- Emotions and Emotional Stability
- Expectations Regarding Aging
- Life Course Perspective on Adult Development
- Loneliness
- Memory
- Mental Status Assessment
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Motivation
- Personality Disorders
- Positive Attitudes and Health
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Pseudodementia
- Psychiatric Rating Scales
- Psychosocial Theories
- Schizophrenia, Paranoia, and Delusional Disorders
- Selective Optimization With Compensation
- Self-Care
- Self-Efficacy
- Self-Rated Health
- Stress
- Subjective Well-Being
- Successful Aging
- Suicide and the Elderly
- Vascular Depression
- Nutritional Issues
- Physical Status
- Allostatic Load and Homeostasis
- Biological Theories of Aging
- Biomarkers of Aging
- Body Composition
- Body Mass Index
- Cardiovascular System
- Compression of Morbidity
- Fluid and Electrolytes
- Hearing
- Men's Health
- Multiple Morbidity and Comorbidity
- Normal Physical Aging
- Perioperative Issues
- Pulmonary Aging
- Skin Changes
- Skin Neoplasms, Benign and Malignant
- Sleep
- Surgery
- Temperature Regulation
- Therapeutic Failure
- Vision and Low Vision
- Women's Health
- Prevention
- Sociodemographic and Cultural Factors
- Active Life Expectancy
- Africa
- African Americans
- Age–Period–Cohort Distinctions
- Asia
- Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
- Australia and New Zealand
- Canada
- Caregiving
- Centenarians
- Compression of Morbidity
- Critical Perspectives in Gerontology
- Demography of Aging
- Disasters and Terrorism
- Disclosure
- Early Adversity and Late-Life Health
- Economics of Aging
- Education and Health
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Ethical Issues and Aging
- Ethnicity and Race
- Europe
- Expectations Regarding Aging
- Global Aging
- Health Communication
- Hispanics
- Homelessness and Health in the United States
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Life Course Perspective on Adult Development
- Living Arrangements
- Loneliness
- Longevity
- Marital Status
- Mexico
- Midlife
- Migration
- Multiple Morbidity and Comorbidity
- Native Americans and Alaska Natives
- Negative Interaction and Health
- Oldest Old
- Quality of Life
- Rural Health and Aging Versus Urban Health and Aging
- Social Networks and Social Support
- Socioeconomic Status
- Stress
- Successful Aging
- Work, Health, and Retirement
- Studies of Aging
- Aging in Manitoba Longitudinal Study
- Cardiovascular Health Study
- Clinical Trials
- Critical Perspectives in Gerontology
- Duke Longitudinal Studies
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly
- Government Health Surveys
- Health and Retirement Study
- Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly
- Honolulu–Asia Aging Study, Honolulu Heart Program
- Longitudinal Research
- Longitudinal Study of Aging
- MacArthur Study of Successful Aging
- National Health Interview Survey
- National Long Term Care Survey
- Normative Aging Study
- Qualitative Research on Aging
- Twin Studies
- Systems of Care
- Advance Directives
- Advocacy Organizations
- Aging Network
- Assisted Living
- Caregiving
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Continuum of Care
- Death, Dying, and Hospice Care
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Ethical Issues and Aging
- Geriatric Profession
- Geriatric Team Care
- Gerontological Nursing
- Health and Public Policy
- Health Care System for Older Adults
- Home Care
- Institutional Care
- Legal Issues
- Long-Term Care
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- Managed Care
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Minimum Data Set
- National Institute on Aging
- Nursing Roles in Health Care and Long-Term Care
- Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)
- Palliative Care and the End of Life
- Patient Safety
- Pets in Health Care Settings
- Rehabilitation Therapies
- Self-Care
- Social Work Roles in Health and Long-Term Care
- Telemedicine
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