دانلود کتاب پوکی استخوان – راهنمای زیست شناسی، پیشگیری، تشخیص و درمان، جلد دوم

With the dawn of the twenty-first century has come the realisation that bone and joint diseases are the major cause of pain and physical disability worldwide. Moreover, according to the WHO Scientific Group, there are more than 150 diseases and syndromes of musculoskeletal conditions, usually associated with pain and loss of function. It is undoubtedly these insights that prompted the WHO to declare the first 10 years of the new century as “The Bone and Joint Decade 2000–2010”. This declaration obviously made a highly significant impact on international, national and medical authorities, as well as on physicians, scientists and citizens worldwide as evidenced by an overwhelming flood (a regular tsunami) of articles, studies and books on the subject in the last few years alone! Not to mention the coverage in newspapers and journals, on the radio and television, and of course all the up-to-date information freely available on the Internet. The number of people suffering from these diseases—already many millions in the developed and underdeveloped countries in the world—is expected to double within the next 20 years. In many countries, this increase will be even greater due to the longer survival and consequently larger numbers of older people in the population. It is therefore inevitable that the already astronomical costs of health care will rise proportionally. According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), the worldwide incidence of hip fracture is projected to increase by 240% in women and 310% in men by 2050, unless appropriate preventive measures will be taken on sufficiently large national and international scales, for which, hopefully, this book will provide a stimulus!