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Family History of Osteoporosis
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Family History of Fragility fracture
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Dietary calcium deficiency
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Elderly fall
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When you exercise, you gain more strength and flexibility. Your mood will improve, and you'll be able to think better.
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In elderly patients, symptoms of depression can be mistaken for symptoms of another medical problem, so it is important for clinicians to consider all physical problems and medications of elderly patients before making a diagnosis.
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Aimed at older adults, this report provides practical advice on how to avoid common and often deadly accidents at home.
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Learn how to put together a caregiving plan, draw on useful services, and address legal, medical, and financial planning issues. Also, find advice on involving family members, handling daily tasks, and maintaining your well being.
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Women''s health differs from men''s health, and not just with respect to reproduction. To understand and examine these differences appropriately, the variables of sex and gender are each relevant.In general, sex refers to biological, anatomical, phy...
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Vitamin D deficiency exists when the concentration of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D(25-OH-D) in the blood serum occurs at 12 nanograms/milliliter(ng/ml) or less. This is one-half to one-fourth the amount normally present.
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Vitamin D is essential to help your body absorb and use calcium to help build strong bones and teeth.
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Vitamin D deficiency exists when the concentration of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D(25-OH-D) in the blood serum occurs at 12 ng/ml(nanograms/milliliter), or less. The normal concentration of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D in the blood serum is 25-50 ng/ml.
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Detailed information on osteoporosis, including risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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A variety of exercises is best. Physical activity will slow further bone loss. It can also be fun.
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Your body needs calcium to build and repair bones. But it can't make calcium on its own. That's why it's important to eat calcium-rich foods. Some foods are naturally rich in calcium. Others have calcium added.
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Although it's impossible to prevent all falls, you can help keep yourself safe by improving your balance and employing "fall-proofing" behaviors.
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Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases.Chronic brain syndrome; Lewy body dementia; DLB; Vascular dementia.The two major causes of non-reversible(degenerative) dementia are:.Alzheimer''s disease Loss of brain function...
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This report is an important reference tool for patients and caregivers alike. Offers information on the symptoms, causes, and treatments for this debilitating condition, as well as caregiving tips.
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Many older adults are healthy, active, and alert. But sometimes older people become confused and forgetful. They can also seem anxious, depressed, or withdrawn. These changes may be the result of a primary dementia.
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As we age, we face an increased risk of diminished mental capacity. But a combination of continued mental stimulation, proper diet and attention to health matters, and physical activity can help ward off mental problems.
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Second-generation antipsychotic drugs are sometimes being used to treat dementia in the elderly, but the potential side effects and other risks outweight the benefits in many instances.
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Research suggests that people with more active brains are less susceptible to dementia. It may be that their brains perform mental tasks more efficiently, thus creating a reserve of brain capacity.
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HDL, the "good" cholesterol, helps prevent heart disease, but there is some evidence that suggests it may also help protect against strokes, and possibly dementia as well.
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Dementia is a condition characterized by a progressive, irreversible decline in mental ability, accompanied by changes in behavior and personality. There is commonly a loss of memory and skills that are required to carry out activities of daily li...
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The term dementia refers to symptoms, including changes in memory, personality, and behavior, that result from a change in the functioning of the brain. These declining changes are severe enough to impair the ability of a person to perform a funct...
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Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome(group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with performing the tasks of daily life.
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Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated with a loss or alteration of consciousness.Dementia is a group of sym...
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Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome(group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life.
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Dementia is not a specific disorder or disease. It is a syndrome(group of symptoms) associated with a progressive loss of memory and other intellectual functions that is serious enough to interfere with the tasks of daily life.
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Dementia is a condition characterized by a chronic decline in cognitive functions contrasted with a person''s usual state of functioning. It is seen most often in people sixty-five years and older, and the incidence increases with age.
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Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated with a loss or alteration of consciousness.Dementia is a group of sym...
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The term"eating disorders" encompasses a group of problems that fall into two broad categories—overeating(binging), and undereating(anorexia)—sometimes referred to as"starving or stuffing." Eating disorders are most commonly found in y...
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A growing number are children, usually girls, aren't overweight but believe they are. Magazines and TV shows that worship ultra-thin models and pop stars fuel the trend.
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Eating disorders are characterized by an obsessive preoccupation with food and/or body weight.Eating disorders are rooted in complex emotional issues that center on self-esteem and pervasive societal messages that equate thinness with happiness. E...
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Boys and men have eating disorders, too. Males make up 5 to 15 percent of patients with anorexia or bulimia and 35 percent of those with binge-eating disorder.
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Detailed information on the most common types of eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder
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Detailed information on eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia The term eating disorders refers to a variety of disorders. The common feature of all the eating disorders is abnormal eating behaviors. Eating disorders are serious mental health problems and can be life threatening.
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Detailed information on eating disorders in children, including anorexia and bulimia
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Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have risen steadily to affect nearly 10 million women (and 1 million men).
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Detailed information on adolescents and eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and obesity
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Detailed information on adolescents and eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and obesity
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The female athlete triad is a common nutritional disorder among female athletes caused by the drive of girls and women to be unrealistically thin in an attempt to improve performance. The disorder is most common in sports judged by build(e.g., gym...
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Eating disorders affect both the mind and the body. Although deviant eating patterns have been reported throughout history, eating disorders were first identified as medical conditions by the British physician William Gull in 1873.
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What's behind the rise in eating disorders? For one thing, experts' growing awareness may lead to more diagnoses. Another reason: A weight-obsessed culture bombarded by media "thin" messages.
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image. The name comes from two Latin words that mean"nervous inability to eat."
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that involves limiting the amount of food a person eats. It results in starvation and an inability to stay at the minimum body weight considered healthy for the person''s age and height.Persons with this disor...
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that mainly affects young women. It can threaten your health, your well being, and even your life. Much about anorexia isn't fully understood. But it can be treated.
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by unrealistic fear of weight gain, self-starvation, and conspicuous distortion of body image. The name comes from two Latin words that mean nervous inability to eat.
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Detailed information on anorexia, including causes, characteristics, types, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and prevention
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Detailed information on anorexia, including causes, characteristics, types, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and prevention
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Detailed information on anorexia, including causes, characteristics, types, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and prevention
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Anorexia nervosa(AN) is an eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight and becoming fat. Because of this fear, the affected individual starves herself or himself, and the person''s weight falls to about 85%(or less) of the no...
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by self-starvation, unrealistic fear of weight gain, and conspicuous distortion of body image.The term anorexia nervosa comes from two Latin words that mean"nervous inability to eat." Anorexics ...
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Detailed information on anorexia, including causes, characteristics, types, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and prevention
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More than one quarter of adolescent anorectics will continue to experience anxiety or depression as adults, and one in five will continue to be underweight. Anorexia nervosa has one of the highest suicide rates of any psychiatric disorder.Jablow, ...
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Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an extreme reduction in food intake leading to potentially life-threatening weight loss. This syndrome is marked by an intense, irrational fear of weight gain or excess body fat, accompanied ...
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The eating disorder known as anorexia nervosa is commonly described as"self-starvation." Characteristics of the disorder include a refusal to maintain a minimally normal weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, a disturbed and unrealistic body i...
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