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The elderly are particularly vulnerable to drug side effects. To prevent accidents, it is necessary to limit the length of orders and to observe certain precautions.

Rheumatism, hypertension, sleep disorders, diabetes, osteoporosis, pain … with age, prescription longer. They will sometimes involve up to half a dozen treatments, if not more at risk to cause accidents toxic. Nearly half the drugs are consumed in France by people over 60 years.

In return, 10% of hospitalizations of elderly people are linked, at least in part, to a medical accident.

Bodies Underperforming

Several factors make the elderly more susceptible to the risk of medication errors, that is to say the side effects of treatment.

* The liver and kidney, the two bodies to ensure the degradation and elimination of drugs are less effective with age. Consequently, the chemical molecules remain longer in the blood and tissues before being eliminated and may accumulate over the catch. Doses well tolerated by young people can cause toxic effects in older people.
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Heart failure: what is it?

Heart failure is a serious health problem that occurs when the heart can no longer pump enough blood to meet the oxygen requirements of the body. Gradually, people who are living out of breath and tire more easily.

It usually occurs in individuals whose health is weakened for several years by cardiac or respiratory disorders, or hypertension.

Heart failure is more frequent than before. This is one consequence of successful treatment against heart disease. There is however no reliable statistics on its prevalence. This is a major cause of mortality among the elderly. Indeed, the survival rate five years after diagnosis is about 50% 1.
Causes

Heart failure occurs when the heart has much more force to expel blood into the arteries, or that it fills less blood because it has stiffened. Each contraction of the heart is therefore less effective. The blood takes longer to pass through the arteries and tends to stagnate in the veins. Because of this congestion of blood in the veins it is called heart failure “congestive”.

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The size of a walnut, the prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system located below the bladder, in front of the rectum. The prostate secretes nutrients and semen thinners.

As it surrounds the urethra (the canal from the bladder), a tumor in the prostate can interfere with urination. To function, prostate needs of sex hormones, androgens, which are produced in the testes, especially, and by the adrenal glands. Some prostate cancers are stimulated by these hormones.

In North America, cancer of the prostate is the most common cancer in men. According to autopsy studies, one third of men aged under 80 had traces of cancer prostate39. In the 80 years or more, this proportion rises to two thirds. However, most men in whom it detects prostate cancer die of other causes.

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Today, thanks to advances in science, the population has aged, so the number of people with involutional osteoporosis has also increased. Within this population could be considered two groups: the first people with a clinical disability have clearly not in their activities and in the second group, much reduced, for example those with vertebral compression, or other pathologies they cause extensive disability (all of the first group are at risk of being the second).

As we said that the global trend is the increase in the average age of population, it is necessary that persons who work with these individuals know very well what the risk factors of disease, the implications of nutritional programs and therapeutic measures taken into account.
Also taken into account genetic and environmental factors in the development of osteopenia in adults.

Physical activity is essential among therapeutic measures given the positive correlation between muscle mass and bone mass. As all rehabilitation is a very important weapon in preventing bone disorders or treat osteoporosis, alleviating symptoms once established.

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The skin cancers are becoming more frequent. Worse, the incidence of melanoma, the form of skin cancer the rarest but most severe double every 10 years for people with white skin!

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Is an opening in the tympanic membrane (eardrum).

Causes

The tympanic membrane (eardrum) separates the external ear, middle ear and vibrates when sound waves strike, beginning the process that converts sound waves into nerve impulses that travel to the brain. When the eardrum is damaged, the hearing process is interrupted.

The eardrum also acts as a barrier to keep outside material, such as bacteria from entering the middle ear, but when it is perforated, bacteria can easily travel to the middle ear, causing an infection.

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What is chronic kidney disease (CKD English)?
Healthy kidneys remove waste products that are in the blood. The waste then leaves your body in urine. The kidneys also help control blood pressure and produce red blood cells.

When the kidneys are damaged they can not remove the waste product that is in the blood as well as they should. This is known as chronic kidney disease, CKD. About 20 million people in the United States have this disease.

The most common causes of CKD are high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. CKD can lead to kidney failure, but early treatment can slow or prevent this occurrence. CKD can also be caused by infections or urinary blockages.

Anybody may be at risk if someone in your family has CKD or if you have diabetes or high blood pressure. Talk to your doctor about your risk factors present. It is important to diagnose early (early) of the ERC.

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What is Menopause?

Defined as “the last menstrual period. The term is generally less useful for simple however, and it is unclear what a woman should wait. the last menstrual period may come after a long period during menstruation may have unexpected and uncertain. Many other symptoms that affect the body and mind, you may have and this can cause disruption of social activities and work. In the women who were not taken by the uterus and ovaries when they were still menstruating regularly, they produce a hysterectomy menstruation vanished, but are not considered menopausal.
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Senile Osteoporosis

Senile means that this disease only occurs in the elderly: senile osteoporosis usually occurs in people over age 70 years and twice as many women as men. Women usually have well-senile and postmenopausal osteoporosis.
In senile osteoporosis, long time no noticeable symptoms found, the disease is often not discovered until a fracture (eg hip fracture, wrist fracture, vertebral fracture or wervelinzakking or a pelvic fracture) occurs. Usually, the process of bone resorption with age ever.

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Classification of coronary heart disease in clinical stages and according to ICD

Coronary heart disease, also called ischemic heart disease, are diseases of the heart caused by atherosclerosis (atherosclerosis). This causes oxygen deficiency (ischemia) in the heart muscle. Coronary heart disease are divided into acute (heart attack or myocardial infarction) and chronic (angina pectoris) forms.

The ICD has additional categories, mostly asymptomatic diagnoses. The classifications according to the ICD-9 and ICD-10 are quite diverse. Thus, part of the ICD-10 category of “certain current complications following acute myocardial infarction ‘(code I23) in ICD-9 classified under” no well-defined diseases and complications of heart disease “(code 429), and thus not subject to the coronary heart disease.

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