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    9% less chances of showing compliance, and patients who had normal levels of systolic blood pressure were 3.5 times more likely to adhere to their treatment. No correlation between compliance and social demographic data, such as gender, age, level of study, and family and occupational status, was found (p > 0.05). Conclusion Compliance of patients who suffered from ACS is at low level. There is a need for closed monitoring and use of wearable devices in order to improve the compliance rates.Stroke is becoming a main cause of early death and disability in developing countries like India, and it is mostly enhanced by increased predominance of major risk factors. A detailed knowledge about the nature and magnitude of the stroke cases in this particular area is not only important for acute treatment but also it helps to prevent hospital admissions due to reoccurring stroke. The present study was conducted in the Department of Stroke at MGM Hospital, Warangal, India, to study the patterns of stroke admissions. All the collected data were compiled and analyzed using appropriate statistical tools. The mean age of study population was found to be 58.9 ± 18. Only 2.7% of stroke incidents occurred in people aged ≤40 years old, 4.9% of cases concerned people between 41 and 50 years old, 18.2% of the incidents happened when the subjects were between 51 and 60 years old, and in 74.2% of the cases, the individuals were ≥60 years old. The frequencies of ischemic (IS), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) in Warangal region were 57.9%, 7.3%, and 29.2%, respectively. A statistically significant association was found for both smoking (χ2 = 419.1 and p less then 0.001) and alcohol (χ2 = 68.7 and p less then 0.001) as risk factors in stroke. From this study, it was apparent that in Telangana region, there is a need to provide structured clinical management in treating emergency stroke cases and implement stroke care services with organized multidisciplinary teams.According to the World Health Organisation (WHO 2002), people’s life expectancy worldwide is continuously growing, and on the one hand, that is one of the greatest triumphs of humanity to date. But at the same time, it is also one of the most important challenges as the aging of the population raises economic and social requirements in all countries.Background Cognitive screening measures are widely administered in everyday clinical practice in different geriatric settings. Despite the presence of several extended-like screening tests, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) continues to be largely used not only by neuropsychologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists but also by general practitioners and other health-related specialties. Aim We herein provide normative data for the MMSE in a large sample of community-dwelling healthy participants aged over 50 years old stratified by age and education. Material and methods The sample included 925 community-dwelling healthy participants (age range 50-91 years) of both genders (231 males/694 females) with different educational level (range 1-16 years). Demographic-related effects were examined for the total MMSE score using hierarchical regression analysis; normative data are presented in mean ± standard deviation and percentile ranks and divided into seven overlapping age tables with different midpoints at 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, and 85 years using the overlapping cell procedure. Results Initial analysis did not show any effect of gender but revealed significant correlation between age, education, and total MMSE. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that education significantly accounted for 17.3% of the total variance in the MMSE with age adding a significant 7.4% to the final model (adjusted R2 = 0.246, F = 151.872, p less then 0.001; age β = -0.286, p less then 0.001; education β = 0.332, p less then 0.001). The sample was stratified according to the overlapping cell procedure with regard to age (age groups 50-60, 55-65, 60-70, 65-75, 70-80, 75-85, 80-91); four educational levels were considered 1-5, 6-9, 10-12, and 13-16 years. Conclusions Current normative data for the Greek version of the MMSE are provided as a useful set of norms for clinical and research practice.The goal of this study is to examine subjective quality of life-life satisfaction, religiousness, and spiritual experience in healthy younger and older adults, as well as in older patients suffering from severe cardiovascular disease, while examining the role of marital status, employment and socioeconomic status, existence of social network, urbanicity, education, depression, and personal opinion about the country’s current socioeconomic situation. Results revealed that there are no age differences and that the role of demographic variables as predictors of religiousness, spiritual experience, and quality of life-life satisfaction don’t seem to be very strong. Marital status, employment, and religiousness moderately predict quality of life-life satisfaction. Quality of life-life satisfaction, religiousness, and spirituality are not strongly interconnected in this Greek Orthodox Christian sample. Future cross-cultural research should further investigate the role of other psychological and social parameters that may have a stronger predictive role in quality of life of older adults.Introduction Increased life expectancy in patients with end-stage renal failure undergoing dialysis and the high prevalence of the chronic renal disease highlight the need to investigate the patients’ quality of life. Aim To investigate sleep disorders and the level of health-related quality of life in hemodialysis patients with chronic renal failure. Material and method The sample of the study consisted of 420 hemodialysis patients. The Kidney Disease and Quality of Life™ Short Form questionnaire was used to assess the quality of life of patients, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index was used to investigate sleep disorders. Selleckchem p-Hydroxy-cinnamic Acid Results The physical and mental health of the responders were found to be 36.9 and 39.6, respectively, while the burden and effects of chronic renal disease were found to be 40 and 44.9, respectively. There were strong positive correlations between the overall health assessment and the emotional well-being (r = 0.743), the physical function (r = 0.730), the burden of renal disease (0.626), the energy/fatigue (0.