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Jari Parkkari
Researcher at University of Tampere
Publications - 200
Citations - 10040
Jari Parkkari is an academic researcher from University of Tampere. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Injury prevention. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 183 publications receiving 8922 citations.
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Epidemiology of hip fractures
TL;DR: The growth of the elderly population will be more marked in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa than in Europe and North America, and it is in these regions that the greatest increments in hip fracture are projected so that these regions will account for over 70% of the 6.26 million hip fractures in the year 2050.
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Update in the epidemiology of proximal humeral fractures.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors collected data from the National Hospital Discharge Register on all patients 60 years or older who were admitted to Finnish hospitals from 1970 to 2002 for primary treatment of proximal humeral fractures.
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Majority of hip fractures occur as a result of a fall and impact on the greater trochanter of the femur: a prospective controlled hip fracture study with 206 consecutive patients.
Jari Parkkari,Pekka Kannus,Mika Palvanen,A. Natri,J. Vainio,Heikki Aho,I. Vuori,Markku Järvinen +7 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that effective prevention of hip fractures could be achieved by the diminution of the number and severity of falls of the elderly, and the severity of the falls (impacts on the greater trochanter) could be decreased by an external hip protector.
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Hip fractures in Finland between 1970 and 1997 and predictions for the future
TL;DR: The number of hip fractures in elderly Finnish men and women is increasing at a rate that cannot be explained merely by demographic changes, and this trend will be almost three-fold higher in the year 2030 than in 1997.
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Increasing number and incidence of low-trauma ankle fractures in elderly people: finnish statistics during 1970–2000 and projections for the future
TL;DR: The regression model indicates that there will be about three times more low-trauma ankle fractures in Finland in the year 2030 than there was in 2000, and potentially effective preventive measures, such as prevention of slippings, trippings, and falls in elderly people, and use of ankle supports, should be urgently studied.