Of the 427,257 claimants in Dublin ML, incorporating Dublin City, 31 % were prescribed nervous system items, whereas just 20%% were prescribed cardiovascular items, largely explained by a relatively younger population in Dublin ML.
While these results are no doubt partly a reflection of the underlying demographic patterns in sub-Saharan Africa, with a relatively younger population compared to more developed countries, these findings still have important potential implications for public health and for poverty eradication.
When dividing our cohort in a relatively younger cohort (≤65 years old at the time of fracture, n = 248) and an old cohort (n = 162), we found significantly different median DASH-scores of 5.0 [0.0–15.0] versus 12.50 [3.13 31.67, p < 0.001], respectively.
22 Although our findings involve a relatively younger population (age 35-64) they are consistent with findings from an unrestricted cohort of adults in Scotland.
This is an important point given the fact that the patients included in the recent trials were a relatively younger group of patients.
This is slightly lower than the mid years of the seventh decade reported for Caucasians in Europe and the US, 43– 45 leading us to suspect that prostate cancer occurs at a relatively younger age among Nigerians.
