Aging population, impact

The majority of fractures in the aging populations are caused by low impact violence such as a fall caused by slipping indoors. Many falls happen when getting out of bed, walking indoors or falling to the floor from a chair. The surroundings are often indoors and it happens in their own apartment or house. Both somatic and environmental causes of falls and following fractures must be examined and their possible association with current pharmacotherapy. 

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By predicting PbB levels, a determination can be made about what health impacts may be occurring at a given site. This will assist health assessment personnel in deciding whether further action is needed. A site-specific evaluation must be made before reaching any conclusions (e.g., pica children, ground cover over contaminated soil, nutritional status and age of the population, etc.). Issues relevant to children are explicitly discussed in Sections 2.6, Children s Susceptibility, and 5.6, Exposures of Children. 

In the early Christian Middle Ages, however, a tradition arose that had a beneficial impact on the mentally ill, despite the fanaticism and incitement of later centuries the tradition of mercy. Prayers were said for the possessed and the Church initially saw itself as a haven for the insane and epileptics also. Only in the eleventh century were some madmen considered to be envoys of the devil, to be combated by all available means in the fourteenth century there was a change to isolating the insane from the healthy population in lunatic asylums and madhouses. Therapeutic measures for those isolated in this way were superfluous at that time, especially as those who knew about herbs and poisons were often themselves suspected of being witches (Duerr, 1979). 

Rheumatoid arthritis affects about 0.5 to 1.0 percent of the population worldwide.38,55 This disease occurs three times more often in women than in men, with women between the ages of 20 and 40 especially susceptible to the onset of rheumatoid joint disease.90 101 Rheumatoid arthritis often causes severe pain and suffering, frequently devastating the patient s family and social life as well as his or her job situation.5 55 The economic impact of this disease is also staggering medical costs and loss of productivity exceed 1 billion annually in the United States.5,55 Consequently, rheu-... 

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