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Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Impacts on Late Life Bone Fragility, Falls, and Fractures: A Narrative Review and Commentary

Sep 2026 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-26-6471
Ray MarksCorresponding author

Sound bone health and the ability to respond effectively to unexpected mobility obstacles that heighten falls risks are crucial for mediating many life affirming activities at all ages, but may be impacted adversely over the course of time by multiple factors, such as excess body weight and its link…

Osteoarthritis Falls Origins, Risks, and Prevention: Do we Need an Ecological Guiding Explanatory Framework?

Jan 2026 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-25-5940
Ray MarksCorresponding author

Lower limb osteoarthritis, a widespread age related chronic condition is often accompanied by an increased tendency to fall and thereby various degrees of intrinsic and extrinsic injury. Falls, in turn may provoke the disease alone and in turn a high falls risk and cycle of recurrent falls and heigh…

Fear of Falls and Frailty: Cause or Consequence or Both?

Dec 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-21-4041
Ray MarksCorresponding author

Background Many older adults are vulnerable to becoming frail. They are also often at risk for falling and serious injuries and poor health outcomes. Aim This exploratory review examines the correlates of frailty, and fear of falling and their association insofar as older adults wellbeing may be jeo…

Vitamin D, Falls and Balance Capacity Impacts in Older Adults: Update

Feb 2021 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-21-3752
Ray MarksCorresponding author

Background Falls injuries continue to contribute to numerous premature deaths as well as high disability levels, and excess morbidity rates among older adults, worldwide. But can vitamin D account for excess falls injuries among older adults? This review specifically focuses on what is known about v…

Osteoarthritis and Falls: Is there a Link?

Aug 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-20-3496
Ray MarksCorresponding author

Osteoarthritis, a widespread joint disease, commonly results in considerable pain and functional disability, especially among older adults. At the same time, falls and fall injuries, also common among the older population, may not only contribute to the onset of osteoarthritis, but once established,…

Secondary Hip Fractures among Aging Adults with a Previous Hip Fracture History: Cumulative 50 Year Overview, Analysis, and Possible Antidote as Observed from 1974-2026 Data Sources

Jun 2026 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-26-6358
Ray MarksCorresponding author

Hip fractures, which remain an immense public health concern, have been subject to study and prevention efforts for many decades, but with limited success in averting either incident, second or subsequent hip fractures, commonly attributed to a combination of age related proclivity to fall, low bone…

The Impact of Public Financing, Economic Growth, and Corruption on Immunization Performance: Evidence from 37 Sub-Saharan African Countries

Oct 2025 DOI 10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-25-5729
Gbadebo Collins AdeyanjuCorresponding author

Background In sub-Saharan Africa, where many countries continue to experience high burdens of vaccine-preventable diseases, increasing immunization access have been a priority for the governments and international organizations such as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Over 40 Gavi-supported African count…

A New Technology for Optimized UV-A-Light Energy Transfer to the Cornea in Corneal Crosslinking for Keratoconus

Nov 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2470-0436.jos-24-5321
Albert DaxerCorresponding author

Purpose The conventional irradiation technique in corneal crosslinking for keratoconus is characterized by a free irradiation path and parallel light rays directed to the corneal surface. This can cause treatment failures resulting from the steep and irregular corneal curvature as well as from eye a…

Effectiveness of Mindful Routine in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) Children

May 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.3066-8042.jac-24-4991
Soumyashree SamantarayCorresponding author

Attention deficit hyperactive disorder is characterised by set of neurological based symptoms in children which falls into broadly two categories; inattention and hyperactive impulsive behaviour. It adversely affect child in various areas like social skill, communication, routine of daily life, acad…

Tai-Chi Exercise Training and its Promising Therapeutic Impacts Among Older Community Dwelling Adults with Painful Knee Osteoarthritis

Jan 2024 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-24-4890
Ray MarksCorresponding author

Knee joint osteoarthritis, a chronic condition resulting in considerable disability, particularly in later life, not only impacts life quality significantly and severely, but is also strongly associated with the persistence of intractable pain, depression, helplessness, and a high falls injury risk.…

Reactive Stepping Responses Mediated by Predictable Manual Waist-Pull Perturbations are Associated with Fall History in Older Adults

Aug 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-20-3461
Tanvi BhattCorresponding author

Background and Purpose The ability to respond effectively to perturbations is a key element of reactive postural control and is a crucial mediator of falls. Several studies exist in the literature that determine older adults’ responses to perturbations, however those studies typically involve proced…

Inbreeding in a Family Tree and in a Population

Mar 2020 DOI 10.14302/issn.2694-1198.jge-20-3206
A.N. VolobuevCorresponding author

On the basis of Hardy – Weinberg’s law the problem of inbreeding in a family tree and a population was investigated. With use of an inbreeding factor are received the discrete equation for a family tree and differential equation for a population. The numerical solution of the differential equation f…

Complementary and Alternative Treatments for Cancer Prevention and Cure (Part 1)

Oct 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-7669.ject-19-3040
Abdul Kader MohiuddinCorresponding author

Many lay people along with some so called “key opinion leaders” have a common slogan “There's no answer for cancer”. Again, mistake delays proper treatment and make situation worse, more often. Compliance is crucial to obtain optimal health outcomes, such as cure or improvement in QoL. Patients may…

Excellent Completion Rate of 8-Weeks Hepatitis C Treatment in Prison; Results of French National Study.

May 2019 DOI 10.14302/issn.2328-0182.japst-19-2738
Aurore BARONCorresponding author

Rationale Prisons are major reservoirs of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in which a therapeutic approach has been particularly difficult so far. Prevalence of viral hepatitis C (HCV) is higher in prison environment in France than in the general population and is estimated to be 4,8%. The impact in prison e…

The Health of Older People in Switzerland

Oct 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2641-4538.jphi-18-2426
P ChastonayCorresponding author Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Over the past century, the proportion of Swiss residents aged 65 or older rose from 5.8% to 17.8%; during the same period, the proportion aged over 80 rose from 0.5% to 5.0%. Although the majority of older people in Switzerland enjoy good health, disease prevalence rises with age. Almost half (49%)…

The Role and Effect of the Comprehensive Music Therapy in Project Sleep: A Multi-Disciplinary Quality Improvement Project.

Mar 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2574-4518.jsdr-17-1785
W Chang-LitCorresponding author Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Sleep is vital for the maintenance of physical health and mental wellbeing. Sleep also plays a cardinal role in the process of healing. It is estimated that 50 to 70 million Americans suffer chronically from sleep disturbances and insufficiency, which not only hinders daily functioning but also adve…

Health Literacy and Older Adults: Fall Prevention and Health Literacy in a Midwestern State

Jan 2018 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-17-1911
Amy K. ChesserCorresponding author

Falls continue to be a health concern for older adults. Gender and age are key predictors of falls, particularly for those with low health literacy. Data were collected by a State Health Department using the state-led supplemental question option for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C…

A Cost Analysis of Systematic Vitamin D Supplementation in the Elderly Versus Supplementation Based on Assessed Requirements

Sep 2017 DOI 10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-17-1724
Pär WanbyCorresponding author

Hypovitaminosis D is common among older people and treatment with vitamin D is associated with reduced risk of falls and fractures. This paper provides a cost analysis of assessing the vitamin D status of and providing the pharmaceuticals for elderly citizens in Kalmar County, Sweden (population app…

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