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Frailty or frailty syndrome refers to a state of health in which older adults gradually lose their bodies' in-built reserves and functioning. This makes them more vulnerable, less able to recover and even apparently minor events (infections, environmental changes) can have drastic impacts on their physical and mental health.
Etiolation / iː t i ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ən / is a process in flowering plants grown in partial or complete absence of light. [1] It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves due to longer internodes; and a pale yellow color . The development of seedlings in the dark is known as "skotomorphogenesis" and leads to etiolated seedlings.
About seven per 100,000 people are affected by MDS; about four per 100,000 people newly acquire the condition each year. [4] The typical age of onset is 70 years. [ 4 ] The prognosis depends on the type of cells affected, the number of blasts in the bone marrow or blood, and the changes present in the chromosomes of the affected cells. [ 3 ]
Some minor health conditions are easy to brush off. But for these people, they turned out to be symptoms of a much more severe illness. The post 70 Innocent Symptoms That Led To Alarming Medical ...
“In adults over the age of 65, symptoms almost always include a cough, whereas with the flu, coughing is usually just present in about two-thirds of patients,” he says.
The adult UL was set at 40–45 mg/day for women and 50–60 mg/day for men, with the lower values in those ranges for adults over 70 years of age [46] National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia 50 mg/day
Adult-onset Still's disease is rare and has been described all over the world. The number of new cases per year is estimated to be 1.6 per 1,000,000 population. [1] The number of people currently affected is estimated at 1.5 cases per 100,000–1,000,000 population. [21]
Hypophosphatasia (/ ˌ h aɪ p oʊ ˈ f ɒ s f eɪ t ˌ eɪ ʒ ə /; also called deficiency of alkaline phosphatase, phosphoethanolaminuria, [5] or Rathbun's syndrome; [1] sometimes abbreviated HPP [6]) is a rare, and sometimes fatal, inherited [7] metabolic bone disease. [8]