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Update on the management of constipation in the elderly: new treatment options

Constipation disproportionately affects older adults, with a prevalences of 50% in community-dwelling elderly and 74% in nursing-home residents. Loss of mobility, medications, underlying diseases, impaired anorectal sensation, and ignoring calls to defecate are as important as dyssynergic defecation...

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Main Authors: Rao, Satish SC, Go, Jorge T
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920196/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20711435
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