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Osteoporosis
Study results from University of Chester provide new insights into osteoporosis
November 18th, 2008
"Health professionals face two complicated but contradictory epidemics: obesity and osteoporosis (OP). While obesity is obvious, OP progresses silently affecting one in two UK women," scientists in Chester, the United Kingdom report. "Both South Asian and Caucasian women are at OP risk. This study compared experiences of osteoporotic Caucasian and South Asian women in a purposive sample of 21 volunteers from south east U.K., aged 43 to 82 years. The women had been diagnosed for eight months to 40 years. Long disease duration was marked by complacent OP dialogue, although OP was objectionable and marked a loss of quality of life. Inductive content analysis of transcripts...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-11-18)
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