Peculiarities of digestion in senescence.
It is established, that involutional changes of digestive tract limits digestion in old patients. In the age digestive capacities mostly are sufficient, but there is a great tendency to maldigestion. The decrease of functional capacity doesn't show the clinical features of a manifest digestive insufficiency in old healthy probands. But it was shown that the digestive efficiency is exhausted by hyper-alimentation more quickly in elderly. The pancreas of elderly is able to digest small meals taken frequently.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000681:Amylases / Q000378:metabolism; D004063:Digestion; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010179:Pancreas / Q000502:physiology*; D010189:Pancreatic Juice / Q000378:metabolism
D000681:Amylases