You are puting it mild. Those people are often on bunch of drugs concurently: ACE inhibitors, NSAIDs, anti-inflamatories. Many of those drugs deplete essential

You are puting it mild. Those people are often on bunch of drugs concurently: ACE inhibitors, NSAIDs, anti-inflamatories. Many of those drugs deplete essential nutrients such as Zinc, vitamin C etc. Maybe that is the dominannt reason why older folks have such incidence. I wonder what are the stats for old & healthy (rare thing indeed, but not unheard of).