Background in 2010, the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP)
published a sarcopenia definition that aimed to foster advances in identifying and caring …

Background One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025,
the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to …

Background As mortality rates decline, life expectancy increases, and populations age, non-fatal
outcomes of diseases and injuries are becoming a larger component of the global …

Many lines of evidence, including epidemiologic data and extensive clinical and experimental
studies, indicate that early life events play a powerful role in influencing later susceptibility …

Background Monitoring levels and trends in premature mortality is crucial to understanding
how societies can address prominent sources of early death. The Global Burden of Disease …

Background: the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People has developed a
clinical definition of sarcopenia based on low muscle mass and reduced muscle function (…

This report describes the epidemiology, burden, and treatment of osteoporosis in the 27
countries of the European Union (EU27). Introduction Osteoporosis is characterized by reduced …

ContextVertebral fractures significantly increase lifetime risk of future fractures, but risk of
further vertebral fractures in the period immediately following a vertebral fracture has not been …

Osteoporosis is widely viewed as a major public health concern, but the exact magnitude of
the problem is uncertain and likely to depend on how the condition is defined. Noninvasive …

Vertebral fractures are the classic hallmark of osteoporosis, yet little is known of their
epidemiology. The incidence of clinically diagnosed vertebral fractures was therefore directly …