Osteoarthritis, Inflammation, and Degradation : a Continuum /
Osteoarthritis is a major public health issue due to its impact in term of handicap. Moreover, ageing of the world population and outbreak of obesity in industrialized and non-industrialized countries will dramatically increase its incidence in the next years. Regarded as a multi-factorial disease,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Washington, DC :
IOS Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Biomedical and health research ;
v. 70. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Osteoarthritis is a major public health issue due to its impact in term of handicap. Moreover, ageing of the world population and outbreak of obesity in industrialized and non-industrialized countries will dramatically increase its incidence in the next years. Regarded as a multi-factorial disease, today mechanistic and inflammatory theories are no more opposed but, on the contrary, are framed within the same continuum: osteoarthritis, inflammation and degeneration. In order to collect major information in a benchmark book on the fundamental aspects of this disease, internationally well-known a. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781607502654 1607502658 9781435625167 1435625161 9781433711411 1433711419 |
ISSN: | 0929-6743 ; |