Book
Osteoarthritis, Inflammation, and Degradation: a Continuum
Biomedical and health research, IOS Press
2007
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Osteoarthritis, Inflammation, and Degradation: a Continuum
- Creators
- Joseph A BuckwalterMartin LotzJ. F Stoltz
- Resource Type
- Book
- Series
- Biomedical and health research
- ISBN
- 9781435625167; 1435625161; 9781433711411; 1433711419; 1607502658; 9781607502654
- eISBN
- 9781586037734; 1586037730
- ISSN
- 0929-6743
- Publisher
- IOS Press; Amsterdam; Washington, DC
- Number of pages
- xiv, 299 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2007
- Academic Unit
- Orthopedics and Rehabilitation; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984305887302771
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