Osteoarthritis : public health implications for an aging population /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The Association of aging and disease
- General concepts of the association of aging and disease / William F. Forbes
- Implications of the accrual of chronic nonfatal conditions in very elderly persons / S. Jay Olshansky and Christine K. Cassel
- Long-term home health care for frail, homebound elderly persons / Philip W. Brickner
- Pt. 2. Osteoarthritis in an aging population
- Evidence for the increasing prevalence of osteoarthritis with aging: does this pertain to the oldest old? / Flavia M. Cicuttini and Tim D. Spector.
- General concepts of disablement / Jean-Marie Robine, Jean-Francois Ravaud, and Emmanuelle Cambois
- Osteoarthritis, comorbidity, and physical disability / Andrew A. Guccione
- The Aging skeleton: osteoarthritis and osteoporosis / David Hamerman
- Pt. 3. Exercise as a therapeutic modality in aging and osteoarthritis
- The Principles and prescription of exercise for frail older persons / James Oat Judge
- Osteoarthritis and exercise / Marian A. Minor and John P. Allegrante
- Pt. 4. Prospects for the prevention of osteoarthritis.
- Epidemiologic considerations in the primary prevention of osteoarthritis / Marc C. Hochberg and Margaret Lethbridge-Cejku
- Skeletal and imflammation markers in aging and osteoarthritis: implications for early diagnosis and monitoring of the effects of therapy / A. Robin Poole
- Magnetic resonance imaging and the progression of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and aging / Laurane D. Hall, Paul J. Watson and Jenny A. Tyler
- The Pharmaceutical industry and therapeutic approaches to osteoarthritis in the next decade / Helmut Fenner.