Disability, psychosocial factors and mortality among the elderly in a rural french population

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a systematic review of the association between a single item assessing general self-rated health (GSRH) and mortality and found that persons with poor self-reported health had a 2-fold higher mortality risk compared with persons with "excellent" health status, even after adjustment for key covariates such as functional status, depression, and co-morbidity.

TL;DR: Positive psychological well-being was significantly associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality in healthy population studies, and with reduced death rates in patients with renal failure and with human immunodeficiency virus-infection.

TL;DR: Loneliness shows a harmful effect for all-cause mortality and this effect is slightly stronger in men than in women, which was independent from the quality evaluation of each article and the effect of depression.

TL;DR: Clinical and epidemiological studies that describe how, and at what stage, glaucoma affects the performance of important vision-related activities and the effects of lighting conditions on task performance are summarized.

TL;DR: The Mini-Mental State (MMS) as mentioned in this paper is a simplified version of the standard WAIS with eleven questions and requires only 5-10 min to administer, and is therefore practical to use serially and routinely.

TL;DR: In this paper, the basic theory of Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) is used to detect a difference between two different proportions of a given proportion in a single proportion.

TL;DR: The drum mallets disclosed in this article are adjustable, by the percussion player, as to balance, overall weight, head characteristics and tone production of the mallet, whereby the adjustment can be readily obtained.