Sentences with phrase «aging of populations worldwide»

Despite ongoing research effort and improved knowledge about the disease, there is currently no effective preventive or curative treatment for AD, which could result in a public health crisis given the continuous aging of populations worldwide.

Given the ageing of populations worldwide, public health and clinical recommendations to prevent and manage sarcopenia are urgently needed.

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The current study is therefore of importance, especially in light of an increasingly aging population worldwide due to increased longevity and declining fertility rates.

Intermittent claudication is the classic symptomatic form of peripheral artery disease (PAD), affecting approximately 20 to 40 million people worldwide and increasing rapidly with the aging world population.

With the elderly segment of populations ballooning worldwide, the race to defeat that grim corollary of aging, Alzheimer's disease, is becoming all the more urgent.

It afflicts 25 million people worldwide, and the number of new cases is rising 7 percent annually, mostly because of an aging population.

The world's older population is growing at an unprecedented rate with 8.5 percent of the worldwide population — 617 million people — age 65 and older, a proportion estimated to reach 17 percent by 2050, according to the National Institute on Aging.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, with the death rate estimated at 17.5 million in 2004 (29 % of all deaths).1 The metabolic syndrome describes a cluster of risk factors that significantly increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes, 2 and the syndrome is becoming increasingly prevalent owing to rising rates of obesity and diabetes and an aging population.

According to the NSF, the grant was awarded to Fong, in part, because her research helps social scientists understand the «social dynamics of childbearing and childrearing at a time when issues of population pressure and population ageing are increasingly pressing worldwide.»

Perhaps this global trend toward loving and pampering pets — even treating cats and dogs like children and spending indulgent amounts of money on them — can be explained by the aging population and declining birth rates worldwide, as did a report on global pet industry trends by market research provider Companiesandmarkets.com.

At present population levels a repeat of the Little Ice Age a mere 400 years ago will cause mass starvation worldwide.

At present human population levels a repeat of the Little Ice Age a mere 400 years ago will cause mass starvation worldwide.

According to the WHO, it is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide.1 More than 300 million people are estimated to be suffering from depression, corresponding to 4.4 % of the global population.1 Depression is more common among older adults, with a prevalence of 7 % and believed to be underestimated.2 As the world population ages, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of older adults with depressive symptoms and associated global health burden.3

According to the WHO, suicide was the second - leading cause of death worldwide in 2012 among people aged 15 — 29 years.1 In addition, a systemic review reported a strong association between self - harm and later suicide, with the risk of suicide among patients with deliberate self - harm (DSH) being hundreds of times higher than that in the general population.2 The terminology surrounding DSH is, however, complex.