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SERUM PROTEINS, PROTEIN‐BOUND IODINE AND TRIIODOTHYRONINE UPTAKE IN THE ELDERLY
Author(s) -
MEINDOK H.,
FRANKS W. M.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1969.tb01168.x
Subject(s) - medicine , triiodothyronine , pathological , blood proteins , albumin , globulin , disease , endocrinology , serum albumin , thyroid , physiology , gerontology
A bstract : Values (means and standard deviations) for serum total protein, albumin, electrophoretic protein fractions, protein‐bound iodine and triiodothyronine uptake were determined in 45 men and 55 women whose ages ranged between 60 and 102 years. Groups of healthy younger people were used as controls. In the elderly, the serum total protein and albumin levels were lower and the alpha‐2 globulin level was higher than in the younger persons. The elderly persons in the study group were residents of a home for the aged, and had varying degrees of minor degenerative illnesses. It is extremely difficult to find an old person for study who is completely free of disease. It is suggested that changes in the serum protein in the elderly result from degenerative and undetected pathological processes, and that chronological age by itself is probably unimportant. Our values would seem to be more useful in clinical geriatric practice than previously published values on small groups of completely disease‐free old persons or those with crippling disability.