(ISSN 2638-1311)
OBM Geriatrics is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. The journal takes the premise that innovative approaches – including gene therapy, cell therapy, and epigenetic modulation – will result in clinical interventions that alter the fundamental pathology and the clinical course of age-related human diseases. We will give strong preference to papers that emphasize an alteration (or a potential alteration) in the fundamental disease course of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular aging diseases, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, skin aging, immune senescence, and other age-related diseases.
Geriatric medicine is now entering a unique point in history, where the focus will no longer be on palliative, ameliorative, or social aspects of care for age-related disease, but will be capable of stopping, preventing, and reversing major disease constellations that have heretofore been entirely resistant to interventions based on “small molecular” pharmacological approaches. With the changing emphasis from genetic to epigenetic understandings of pathology (including telomere biology), with the use of gene delivery systems (including viral delivery systems), and with the use of cell-based therapies (including stem cell therapies), a fatalistic view of age-related disease is no longer a reasonable clinical default nor an appropriate clinical research paradigm.
Precedence will be given to papers describing fundamental interventions, including interventions that affect cell senescence, patterns of gene expression, telomere biology, stem cell biology, and other innovative, 21st century interventions, especially if the focus is on clinical applications, ongoing clinical trials, or animal trials preparatory to phase 1 human clinical trials.
Papers must be clear and concise, but detailed data is strongly encouraged. The journal publishes a variety of article types (Original Research, Review, Communication, Opinion, Comment, Conference Report, Technical Note, Book Review, etc.). There is no restriction on the length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.
Publication Speed (median values for papers published in 2023): Submission to First Decision: 5.7 weeks; Submission to Acceptance: 17.9 weeks; Acceptance to Publication: 7 days (1-2 days of FREE language polishing included)
Reviewer Board (68)
Divisions of Neurology and Medical Ethics, Neurosciences Research Center, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Lebanese University, Lebanon. Founder, Lebanon Memory Group for Clinical Research. Member, National Consultative Committee on Ethics. Former President, Lebanese Society of Neurology
Research Interests: Clinical neurology; Neurological disorders; Neurobehavioral; Memory disorders; Neurocognitive impairment; Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease; Neuroethics; Medical ethics and Law; Professionalism; Healthcare quality and leadership; Bioethics
GMC, Kathua, India
Research Interests: Cancer
Radiation Chemistry and Biospectroscopy, Chemical Engineering School, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Research Interests: Vibration spectroscopy (Fourier transform infrared and Raman); Oxidative stress and the chemistry of free radicals
Department of Physical Therapy, School of Integrative Medicine, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
Research Interests: Manual therapy; Exercise therapy; Orthopedic physical therapy; Martial arts-based exercises; Alternative clinical interventions
Abbott Nutrition Division of Abbott
Research Interests: Malnutrition; Frailty; Sarcopenia; Older adults; Malnutrition/nutrition screening and assessment; Oncology; Telenutrition; Quality improvement programs; Health outcomes
School of Social Work, MacEwan University
Research Interests: Psycho-social wellbeing in aging
Gachon university
Research Interests: Physical therapy; Rehabilitation; Balance
LWL-University Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Bochum, Germany
Research Interests: Age-related diseases; Driving safety; Dementia; Mental health; Psychiatric aspects of palliative medicine
University of Manitoba, Canada
Research Interests: Time and frequency synchronization in hyper scale networks
Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: the physical and mental health of racial and sexual minority older adults in the United States and Latin America; loneliness, chronic pain and cognitive impairment among diverse older adults
School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109
Research Interests: Physical activity interventions; Cognitive functions; Physical activity behaviors; Physical fitness; Mental health and psychological well-being; Mixed-methods evaluation; Implementation outcomes evaluation
Graduate Program in Applied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, State University of Western Paraná, Francisco Beltrão, Brazil
Research Interests: Related to aging: frailty, sarcopenia, HIV, infectious diseases, cytokines, and oxidative stress
IRCCS fondazione policlinico San Matteo Pavia, University of Pavia
Research Interests: HPV; Uro-gynecology; Obstetrics
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Bytom, Poland
Research Interests: Oxidant–antioxidant markers; Glycation indices; Gut dysbiosis; Autophagy and cancer-related and accelerated aging; Obesity and metabolic syndrome from preventive medicine to advanced treatment procedures
Geriatric Service—Cognitive Disorders and Dementia, Department of Primary Care, Health Authority and Services of Modena, 41124 Modena, Italy
Research Interests: Dementia care and management (pharmacological therapies and psychosocial interventions); Quality of care organisation especially in long-term care
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Valladolid, Spain
Research Interests: Nursing; Clinical nursing; Nursing education; Nursing assessment; Advanced practice nursing; Antioxidant agents in neuroprotection treatment of glaucoma
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, Iran
Research Interests: Clinical pharmacology; DNA; p53; Personalized medicine; Pharmacovigilance
1: President of Telocyte (http://www.telocyte.com), Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA
2: Retired Clinical Professor of Medicine, Michigan State University, Ada, Michigan 49301 USA
Research Interests: Human aging; Telomeres; Telomerase therapy; Age-related diseases; Alzheimer's disease
Universidad Católica de Murcia
Research Interests: Physical activity; Sport; Adolescents; Older; Systematic review; Endurance; Fitness; Cardiovascular; Sarcopenic
National Healthcare Group
Research Interests: Public health; Population health; Epidemiology; PROM; Instrument development and validation; Health services research; Health program evaluation
Vali-E-Asr Reproductive Health Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
Research Interests: Woman Health; Menopause; Quality of Life
Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, and e Health Institute Linnaeus University, Vaxjo,35244 Sweden
Research Interests: Health Informatics (Preventive healthcare, Ambient Assisted Living, and AI-based Decision Making)
Department of Paedicatrics, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Research Interests: Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus
Área de Nutrición, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Católica de Ávila, Spain
Research Interests: Nutritional assessment of the population; Geriatric population; Sports population
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia
Research Interests: Geriatric nutrition; Dietetics; Clinical nutrition; Malnutrition; Nutritional assessment
College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Research Interests: Dementia; Neuropsychiatric symptoms; Depression; Sleep; Massage
Department of Gerontology Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Research Interests: Palliative care; Home health care; Successful aging; Elder abuse; Alternative therapy
Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, International Hellenic University
Research Interests: Sports nutrition; Nutrition and physical activity in sarcopenia
merging Researchers and Professionals in Ageing- African Network, ON Canada
Research Interests: Mobility across continuum of care; Care transitions; Black and ageing and interdisciplinary geriatric or gerontological care
Sangmyung University, Seoul, KOREA, Sports & Health Care major
Research Interests: Physical activity; Aging; Health promotion; Physical fitness; Cognitive function in the elderly; Walking exercise
Community Oral Health Department, College of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU)
Research Interests: Dental public health; Health education; Oral health promotion; Evidence-based dentistry; Community dental health; Preventive program planning; National survey; Health system administration; Tobacco/smoking control
Orange, Amman-Jordan
Research Interests: Geriatrics; Pervasive computing
Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India
Research Interests: Cloning; Gene expression; Cell culture; Immunofluorescence; Molecular cell biology; DNA extraction; Structural bioinformatics
Kinesiology and Health, Rutgers University
Research Interests: Lifestyle; Aging; Exercise physiology
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Research Interests: Polygenic scores; Mendelian randomization; EWAS/DNA methylation; Neurodegenerative disorders; Parkinson's disease; Alzheimer's disease; Sex differences; Sex hormones
Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
Research Interests: Geriatric medicine; Gerontology
Section of Morphology, Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Research Interests: Signal transduction; Phospholipase C; Neurodegeneration; Bone disease; Phosphoinositides; Gene expression
Wroclaw Medical University, University Hospital of Wroclaw
Research Interests: Cardiology; Artrial fibrillation; Heart failure; Geriatric conditions; Frailty syndrome; Elderly
Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Research Interests: Frailty; Healthy aging; Family and community nursing; Public health; Infection control
1: Grupo de Investigación Valoración del Rendimiento Deportivo, Actividad Física y Salud y Lesiones Deportivas (REDAFLED), Universidad de Valladolid, Soria, Spain
2: CIBER of Frailty and Healthy Aging (CIBERFES), Madrid, Spain
3: Active Aging, Exercise and Health/HEALTHY-AGE Network, Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD), Madrid, Spain
Research Interests: Empowering health by physical activity, exercise and nutrition
Dr. B R Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences, Mohali, Punjab, India 160055
Research Interests: Arthroscopy; Arthroplasty; Acetabular fractures; Pelvic fractures; Trauma; Basic Orthopaedics
Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana, Bengaluru, India
Research Interests: Establishing the role of yoga in human system’s biology with respect to the process of aging; Exploring the plausible peripheral molecular links that could relate the influence of yoga as a systemic anti-ageing strategy; Exploring the mechanistic links between important molecules in cognition using cell models
Director of Cardiac Department 401 Military Hospital of Athens
Hellenic Cardiac Society (HCS), European Society of Cardiology (ESC), European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions
Research Interests: Atherosclerosis, Carotid artery disease; Coronary cardiac disease
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Research Interests: Social determinants of health and the genetics of chronic disease
Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile
Research Interests: Skeletal muscle regulation; Muscle disuse; Exercise; Protein metabolism; Muscle atrophy; Muscle recovery; Physical therapy, Physical rehabilitation; Aging
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70809, USA
Research Interests: Human nutrition; Skeletal muscle metabolism; Malnutrition; Asthma; Pulmonary disease; Ketone body metabolismUniversidade Paulista / Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo
Research interests: Disparities in health levels; Social inequalities in health; Vaccination; Health equity; Racism; Elderly health
Department of Geriatrics, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, UMK Toruń, Poland
Research Interests: Aging; Frailty; Health problems; Older adults; Human needs; Nutritional status; Quality of life related to health HRQoL; Multidisciplinary care; Functional assessment; Geriatric patients
Al-Rayan colleges, Medina, Saudi Arabia
Research Interests: Geriatric pharmacotherapy; Disability; Pharmacy practice; Ethics
Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Research Interests: Variations, teratology and the toxic effects on the structures of the different body organs and systems including gastrointestinal, CNS, CVS and musculoskeletal
Federal University of São Carlos
Research Interests: Quality of life; Validation of measurement instruments; Frailty; Gerontology
Clinical Nutrition Unit, IRCCS INRCA Ancona, Via Montagnola 81, 60100, Ancona, Italy
Research Interests: Dysphagia; Inflammaging; Nutrition assessment
External Pharmacy of Saint John of God-Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Viale Principe di Napoli 14/B, 82100 Benevento, Italy
Research Interests: Neurology; Epilepsy; Brain cancers; Metastatic cancer; Ketone esters adopted in the metabolic treatment of epilepsy and cancer; Ketogenic diet administered in patients affected by epilepsy and cancer; Alzheimer's disease; Glut 1 deficiency syndrome; Traumatic brain injury; Hyperbaric/hypobaric physiology; Hyperbaric/hypobaric chamber
a FNR ATTRACT fellow and a group leader of the Ageing, Cancer, and Disparities Research Unit, Department of Precision Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health.
Research Interests: Geriatric oncology; Ageing; Epidemiology; Observational data
University of the Western Cape
Research Interests: Mental health; Stress; Burnout; Resilience; Protective factors in mental health outcomes
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Research Interests: User aspects; Technology acceptance; Digital services; Digitization of public administration; Human factors; Technology for elderly people; Healthy and active aging; Electronic health record
Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University. Tel.: +86-18951670344
Research Interests: Cancer; Chemotherapy; Drug-resistance; Immunotherapy; Methylation; etc
Department of Medicine and Aging, and Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), Via Luigi Polacchi, Chieti, Italy
Research Interests: Platelets; Diabetes; Heart failure; Cardiovascular diseases; NAFLD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, BYL Nair Charitable Hospital & TN Medical College, Mumbai, India
Research Interests: Child and adolescent psychiatry; Geriatric psychiatry; Health management systems
T.A. Sciences Inc., New York, NY, USA
Research Interests: Alzheimer's Disease; Neurodegeneration
Apple Inc.
Research Interest: Image processing; Super-resolution Imaging; Imaging systems; Microbubbles; Ultrasound; Photoacoustics; Acoustics
Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology
Research Interests: Heart failure; Hypertension; Cardiac remodeling; Frailty; Orthostatic hypotension
School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Research Interests: Implementation of exercise, psycho-behavioural interventions and geron-technology to manage fatigue, low physical activity levels, falls, and low social participation among frail older people; Improving pain management for nursing home residents with cognitive impairment
College of Dentistry, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
Research Interests: TMJ disorders; Extended reality (XR); Augmented reality (AR); Virtual reality (VR); Oral microbiota; Dental education
Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
Research Interests: Molecular biology; Aging; Gene therapy; Telomeres; Telomerase
Centre of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Puncak Alam Campus, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 42300 Bandar Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal physiotherapy; Low back pain; Spine; Movement science; Patient education; Musculoskeletal geriatrics; Osteoarthritis; Pain; Physical functioning; Clinical eduction
Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China
Research Interests: Management of Built Environment; Multiple Attribute Decision Making; Housing Assessment; Healthy Aging; Aging in place
Geriatrics Unit, University Hospital of Rouen, 76000 Rouen, France
Research Interests: Vitamin B12 deficiency and excess; Frailty syndrome in primary care; Telemedicine; Anemia in the elderly; Iatrogenism; Cognitive disorders
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