Osteoporosis is a disease which causes weak bones and ultimately leads to fractures among old age peoples. Although osteoporosis occurs in both genders, but it is mainly known as women disease. Thirteen percent of men above 50 will present with an osteoporotic fracture in their lifetime, as compared with 40 % of females (46). Osteoporosis is of two types; primary osteoporosis (post menopausal osteoporosis) and secondary osteoporosis (senile osteoporosis) (47). 2.2 Skeletal system The skeletal system
Does Cracking Your Knuckles doesn't cause arthritis. Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritis. Cracking your knuckles wouldn't cause arthritis for a couple reasons. It may be annoying to listen to people cracking their knuckles, but they aren't in danger. They could just keep doing that and hope their hands don't have other side effects. It may cause pain sometimes or give you more risk later on but it won't cause arthritis. Cracking your knuckles probably won't raise the risk of getting
Patient x admitted with a diagnosis of terminal cancer. As well a diagnosis of Osteoporosis which is an auto-immune disorder. Osteoporosis being a condition that causes bones to be brittle and weak, due to the inability of the body to create new cells at the same rate to continue with the repair process. Coughing or minimal movement attributes to fractures with most commonly occurring in the hip, wrist and spine, prevention not being an option. Fall precautions are imperative with the diagnosis
The continent of Australia is often viewed as underpopulated due to its current population of 24 million people spread over 7.692 million km2 in comparison to a country such as the USA with 300 million people over 9.629 million km2. However, this is a false image of Australia because much of the continent is uninhabitable, the amount of arable land is only 6.15% and the amount of available water is small compared to the total land area. In 2016, Australia has had a relatively high population growth
The world has experienced economic growth and development over the past years. As a result of this, some countries experience high growth of mega-cities and urbanization in general. Wang et al. (2009) noted that, migration of the world population into the world cities have almost doubled since 20th century. The growth of cities has been associated to high living standards and high social status of the people. Fujita (2012) in his report realized that, the booming urbanization has led to the growth
The number of people on earth is growing at an alarming pace and projected to increase by 2.5 billion people by the year 2050 (United Nations). With that in mind we must discuss the number of opportunities we have to limit the increase of humans on earth. The need to limit the number of people on earth is multifactor and has already been implemented in before so we know it can be accomplished. We already can’t take care of the people we have. In the United States of America, we already struggle to
One of the world’s greatest problems is overpopulation, this has been going on in tons of countries including India, the worst of them all. It has been happening in India for many years and if it continues to go up at this rate it will become a very bad situation for everyone living there and will become a world problem. It is one of the biggest problems that needs to be stopped for the sake of so many lives. Many attempts have been tried, but none of them successful enough. There is also a lot
California’s Gas Prices Overpriced California since the gold rush has been known as the “Golden State” where it’s flooded with multicultural richness from the beaches to the mountains. California today is the most densely populated state with 38.8 million residents and is still rising, however, not only is the population ever increasing so are gas prices. Allysia Finley an editorial writer from The Wall Street Journal states, “The national average is $2.76 a gallon, while the Golden State drivers
Jessica Darcy WH1, period 2 December 5th How the Gupta Empire rose and what motivated it? “ A rapid expansion of the Gupta Empire and… it began a period of overall prosperity and growth “(“Gupta”). The Gupta Empire was located in Central India and parts of Northern India. The rise began in 320 and lasted until 550 BCE. Their rise was motivated by their achievements in the arts and economy. They also had
A Policy for the Better China, in the late 1970s, had an unbelievable population; close to one billion. With such an alarming number of people and limited resources, even in such a large nation, there had to be an even larger change. China’s one-child policy was a remedy to this problem, and helped Chinese citizens in many ways. Without the policy, China would have many economic problems and serves all of China with its rules. China’s one-child policy was an excellent idea for China and its people