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Osteoarthritis : public health implications for an aging population

Title
Osteoarthritis : public health implications for an aging population / edited by David Hamerman.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Hamerman, David
Description
xiv, 251 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Jack M. Guralnik -- Pt. I. The Association of Aging and Disease. 1. General Concepts of the Association of Aging and Disease / William F. Forbes. 2. Implications of the Accrual of Chronic Nonfatal Conditions in Very Elderly Persons / S. Jay Olshansky and Christine K. Cassel. 3. Long-Term Home Health Care for Frail, Homebound Elderly Persons / Philip W. Brickner -- Pt. II. Osteoarthritis in an Aging Population. 4. Evidence for the Increasing Prevalence of Osteoarthritis with Aging: Does This Pertain to the Oldest Old? / Flavia M. Cicuttini and Tim D. Spector. 5. General Concepts of Disablement / Jean-Marie Robine, Jean-Francois Ravaud and Emmanuelle Cambois. 6. Osteoarthritis, Comorbidity, and Physical Disability / Andrew A. Guccione. 7. The Aging Skeleton: Osteoarthritis and Osteoporosis / David Hamerman -- Pt. III. Exercise as a Therapeutic Modality in Aging and Osteoarthritis.
  • 8. The Principles and Prescription of Exercise for Frail Older Persons / James Oat Judge. 9. Osteoarthritis and Exercise / Marian A. Minor and John P. Allegrante -- Pt. IV. Prospects for the Prevention of Osteoarthritis. 10. Epidemiologic Considerations in the Primary Prevention of Osteoarthritis / Marc C. Hochberg and Margaret Lethbridge-Cejku. 11. Skeletal and Inflammation Markers in Aging and Osteoarthritis: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of the Effects of Therapy / A. Robin Poole. 12. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Progression of Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis, and Aging / Laurance D. Hall, Paul J. Watson and Jenny A. Tyler. 13. The Pharmaceutical Industry and Therapeutic Approaches to Osteoarthritis in the Next Decade / Helmut Fenner.
ISBN
0801855616 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96045259
OCLC
  • 35815200
  • ocm35815200
  • SCSB-4783433
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries