because people are eating low-fiber diets which can cause chronic constipation that will increase the pressure in the colon and subsequently lead to diverticulosis
Shingles comes from having chickenpox in the past. It stays in your body and as you age it comes out as shingles. There is a shot for it.
What is diverticulitis? Many people have small pouches in their colons that bulge outward through weak spots, like an inner tube that pokes through weak places in a tire. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. Pouches (plural) are called diverticula. The condition of having diverticula is called diverticulosis. About 10 percent of Americans over the age of 40 have diverticulosis. The condition becomes more common as people age. About half of all people over the age of 60 have diverticulosis. When the pouches become infected or inflamed, the condition is called diverticulitis. This happens in 10 to 25 percent of people with diverticulosis. Diverticulosis and diverticulitis are also called diverticular disease.
Diabetes can be acquired, inherited or congenital. Acquired Diabetes is when the person has caught the disease usually because of another underlying disease or condition. This is common among elderly also because of old age. Inherited Diabetes is one that is carried in between family members or is passed form generation to generation. The congenital diabetes is one that is already present at birth.
He has a rare disease called Elderlyoungitis.
There are different diseases that are more common in certain age groups, but anyone can be susceptible to any of them. The study of diseases in relation to age is called gerontology.
Helen Keller had scarlet fever, a bacterial infection, which caused her to lose her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months.
Yes. A person of any age can get a disease called rheumatoid arthritis
She died of a disease called scarlet fever.
Hopefully by the age of 16 one has acquired some common sense.
This disease mainly affects children under the age of five.
The average age of diagnosis of the Huntington's disease is 63.1 years old
there are so many heart disease due to old age