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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1814</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>MORBIDITY PATTERN OF ELDERLY IN RURAL FIELD PRACTICE AREA AT SHIVANAGI, BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ugran</surname><given-names>Vidyavati S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Nalini.D.</surname><given-names/></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>K.A.</surname><given-names>Masali</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>25</day><month>05</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>118</fpage><lpage>122</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Ageing is a fine of multiple illness of general disability. Most of the people enter old age in poor health condition, as a result of life long exposure to health risk, deprivation, lack of knowledge of resources to health promotion and poor access to health services. Objectives: To assess the Morbidity Pattern among Elderly of rural area, Shivanagi. Materials and Methods: It?s a Cross Sectional study conducted at RHTC catered by Dept. of Community Medicine, BLDEA?S Shri B M.Patil Medical College Bijapur. Participants were the People aged more than 60 Years and sample size is 144. Results: Around 63% belong to 60-69 years of age group,30% to 70-79 years of age group and 05% to __ampersandsigngt;80 years of age. 89% of elderly were having hypertension, 87% diabetes, 83% asthma, 64% cataract and 63% osteoarthritis. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that the major proportion of the elderly were&#13;
having more than one health problem. So early detection and diagnosis is very essential for thelderly.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Age</kwd><kwd> education</kwd><kwd> elderly morbidity</kwd><kwd> marital</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
