[PDF] Top 20 Osteoporosis: prevalence and risk factors among Taiwanese metropolitan elderly

... process and vigorous quality assurance programs were ...regions and study population comprising middle to upper middle class and relatively healthy can cause regional differences in BMD values ... See full document

... and fracture risk independently of BMD. FRAX estimates the 10-year probability of major osteoporotic fracture (MOF) using risk factors that act independently of femoral neck BMD. A simple ... See full document

... The prevalence of normal, osteopenia and osteoporosis was ...osteopenia and osteoporosis groups were ...osteopenia and oste- oporosis groups were ...26.0±7.7 and 22.1±7.9, ... See full document

... SARCOPENIA PREVALENCE AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS IN AN ELDERLY TAIWANESE METROPOLITAN POPULATION Cheng-Chieh Lin, MD, PhD, 1,2,3 Nai-Hsin Meng, MD, 4 Wen-Yuan Lin, MD, PhD, 1,2 ... See full document

... high risk for adverse health outcomes, including disability, falls, hospitalization and ...overall prevalence of frailty in the community-dwelling population of Western countries has been reported to ... See full document

... causative factors and correlations with MSDs for each part of the ...posture and work ...a risk factor for MSD complaints in the wrists/hands among Taiwanese dentists ... See full document

... The elderly with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are more at risk for cirrhosis, plus even higher ...the elderly. This study explores prevalence of NAFLD to determine related ... See full document

... screening, and as a result would raise the ...gout and only ...respondents and non-respondents did not differ significantly in their education levels and ...the elderly from the ... See full document

... longitudinal risk factors with national elderly samples were ...personal risk factors are usually difficult to change in the old age, but environmental factors and ... See full document

... intake), and eggs and their products ...of osteoporosis and the increase in popularity of dairy foods, the average consumption of dairy products has gradually increased from ...by ... See full document

... characteristics and the risk factors associated with MRSA acquisition were not analyzed and compared be- tween the children with and without CA-MRSA colonization, though all the ... See full document

... Results of stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that previous expose o f osteoporosis related information, age, and educational level accounted for 42% of total variances of k[r] ... See full document

... governmental and nongovernmental agencies provide more financial and techni- cal support to the National Centre against Violence, the main institution in Mongolia devoted to reducing domestic violence, in ... See full document

... operators and it is less feasible to be performed on a large number of exposed individuals as serum biochemical ...background and reviewed by a third physician according to the diagnostic criteria but ... See full document

... Metabolic syndrome has become a significant factor related to cardiovascular disease. According to the investigation of the Department of Health in 2007, there are 2890 thousand people who aged 18 or above with the ... See full document

... animal, and so on (3, 4, 12, ...identify risk fac- tors for MRSA colonization by comparing people with MRSA colonization to those with MSSA colonization and people with MRSA colonization to those ... See full document

... walking among older adults who live in nonmetropolitan areas and own dogs, but who do not currently walk their dogs, could be a fa- vorable population-based intervention strategy to achieve the recommended ... See full document

... for prevalence estimates were calculated using the normal approximation or exact binomial methods as ...age and sex associations with drusen and early AMD ...systolic and diastolic blood ... See full document

... behaviors and related factors among disabled ...outpatient and long term care institution users who were aged 60 or over with physical ...interviewed, and 505 of them completed the ... See full document

... times, prevalence data in elderly populations involve mostly Western or Caucasian ...study and other surveys. Our data for the Taiwanese elderly are in agreement with results from Korea ... See full document