Disc deterioration?

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Heightened Height Loss Increases Mortality in MenA longitudinal study carried out here showed that men who lose three centimeters or more of height (about 1.18 inches) as they age are at an increased risk of death, compared to men who lose less than a centimeter, according to S. Goya Wannamethee, Ph.D., of the Royal Free and University College Medical School here.The study wasn't able to pin down exactly why the height loss is associated with an increased risk of death, Dr. Wannamethee and colleagues said, although osteoporosis increases the risk of death and may play a role.However, osteoporosis usually causes a loss of six centimeters (2.36 inches) or more of height, and when the 283 men whose height loss was four or more centimeters were excluded from this analysis, the results were unchanged, the researchers said."The increased mortality risk was already seen in men with a height loss in the range of three centimeters to four centimeters and was not solely attributable to extreme height loss," the researchers concluded.It's possible the some underlying mechanism is responsible both for height loss and for other health consequences that combine to give rise to the increased risk of death, the researchers said.http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/Geriatrics/dh/4679 Sears, DCNW PDX

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well how about that? they keep marching - tiny little step by tiny little step - toward that light bulb of 'structure determines function', don't they? What do you think ... about another 50 years before they get it?

sunny

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From: Sears <dm.bones@...>oregon dcs <Oregondcs >Subject: Disc deterioration?Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:47:13 -0800

Heightened Height Loss Increases Mortality in Men

A longitudinal study carried out here showed that men who lose three centimeters or more of height (about 1.18 inches) as they age are at an increased risk of death, compared to men who lose less than a centimeter, according to S. Goya Wannamethee, Ph.D., of the Royal Free and University College Medical School here.

The study wasn't able to pin down exactly why the height loss is associated with an increased risk of death, Dr. Wannamethee and colleagues said, although osteoporosis increases the risk of death and may play a role.

However, osteoporosis usually causes a loss of six centimeters (2.36 inches) or more of height, and when the 283 men whose height loss was four or more centimeters were excluded from this analysis, the results were unchanged, the researchers said.

"The increased mortality risk was already seen in men with a height loss in the range of three centimeters to four centimeters and was not solely attributable to extreme height loss," the researchers concluded.

It's possible the some underlying mechanism is responsible both for height loss and for other health consequences that combine to give rise to the increased risk of death, the researchers said.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/Geriatrics/dh/4679

Sears, DC

NW PDX

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