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Lewis A. Lipsitz
Researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Publications - 442
Citations - 47937
Lewis A. Lipsitz is an academic researcher from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blood pressure & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 105, co-authored 414 publications receiving 43975 citations. Previous affiliations of Lewis A. Lipsitz include Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
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Exercise training and nutritional supplementation for physical frailty in very elderly people
Maria A. Fiatarone,Evelyn F. O'Neill,Nancy D. Ryan,Karen M. Clements,Guido R. Solares,Miriam E. Nelson,Susan B. Roberts,Joseph J. Kehayias,Lewis A. Lipsitz,William J. Evans +9 more
TL;DR: High-intensity resistance exercise training is a feasible and effective means of counteracting muscle weakness and physical frailty in very elderly people, in contrast to multi-nutrient supplementation without concomitant exercise, which does not reduce muscle weakness orPhysical frailty.
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High-Intensity Strength Training in Nonagenarians: Effects on Skeletal Muscle
Maria A. Fiatarone,Elizabeth C. Marks,Nancy D. Ryan,C. N. Meredith,Lewis A. Lipsitz,William J. Evans +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that high-resistance weight training leads to significant gains in muscle strength, size, and functional mobility among frail residents of nursing homes up to 96 years of age.
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MDS Cognitive Performance Scale
John N. Morris,Brant E. Fries,David R. Mehr,Catherine Hawes,Charles D. Phillips,Vincent Mor,Lewis A. Lipsitz +6 more
TL;DR: A Cognitive Performance Scale (CPS) is designed that uses MDS data to assign residents into easily understood cognitive performance categories, and should prove useful to clinicians and investigators using the MDS to determine a resident's cognitive assets.
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Consensus statement on the definition of orthostatic hypotension, neurally mediated syncope and the postural tachycardia syndrome.
Roy Freeman,W. Wieling,Felicia B. Axelrod,David G. Benditt,Eduardo E. Benarroch,Italo Biaggioni,William P. Cheshire,Thomas C. Chelimsky,Pietro Cortelli,Christopher H. Gibbons,David S. Goldstein,Roger Hainsworth,Max J. Hilz,Giris Jacob,Horacio Kaufmann,Jens Jordan,Lewis A. Lipsitz,Benjamin D. Levine,Phillip A. Low,Christopher J. Mathias,Satish R. Raj,David Robertson,Paola Sandroni,Irwin J. Schatz,Ron Schondorff,Julian M. Stewart,J. Gert van Dijk +26 more
TL;DR: This is a list of key figures in the history of computer graphics, as well as some of the more obscure figures, that have contributed to the development of modern computer graphics.
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Management of Pain in Elderly Patients With Cancer
Roberto Bernabei,Giovanni Gambassi,Kate L. Lapane,Francesco Landi,Constantine Gatsonis,Robert Dunlop,Lewis A. Lipsitz,Knight Steel,Vincent Mor +8 more
TL;DR: Evaluating the adequacy of pain management in elderly and minority cancer patients admitted to nursing homes found age, gender, race, marital status, physical function, depression, and cognitive status were independently associated with the presence of pain.