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Bioactive Polysaccharide Materials for Modern Wound Healing

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The world is ageing rapidly. The percentage of older people (aged 60 years and over) worldwide increased from 9.2 % in 1990 to 11.7 % in 2013, and will reach 21.1 % by 2050 (Wound Management in An $18.5 billion+ worldwide market in 2021, 2015 [1]). That means the number of elderly is expected to more than double, from 841 million people in 2013 to more than 2 billion in 2050 (Fig. 1a). The ageing is connected strongly with the higher incidence of wounds. Exponential growth of older people is, therefore, parallel, followed by exponential growth of the wound management market (Fig. 1b).

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Characterization and Processing of Polymers, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Tina Maver, Tanja Pivec, Manja Kurečič, Zdenka Persin & Karin Stana Kleinschek

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Department of Pharmacology, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Uroš Maver

  3. Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Manja Kurečič & Karin Stana Kleinschek

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Maver, T., Maver, U., Pivec, T., Kurečič, M., Persin, Z., Stana Kleinschek, K. (2018). Advanced Wound Care. In: Bioactive Polysaccharide Materials for Modern Wound Healing. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89608-3_1

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