Examples of osteoporosis in the following topics:
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- Osteoporosis is a bone disease that leads to an increased risk of fracture.
- The form of osteoporosis most common in women after menopause is referred to as primary type one or postmenopausal osteoporosis.
- Primary type two osteoporosis or senile osteoporosis occurs after age 75 and is seen in both females and males at a ratio of two to one.
- Osteoporosis affects 55% of Americans aged 50 and above.
- Osteoporosis risks can be reduced with lifestyle changes and sometimes medication.
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- Women who are thin are at higher risk of developing osteoporosis than are heavier women.
- The form of osteoporosis most common in women after menopause is referred to as primary type 1 or postmenopausal osteoporosis.
- Primary type 2 osteoporosis or senile osteoporosis occurs after age 75 and is seen in both females and males at a ratio of 2:1.
- Osteoporosis itself has no symptoms.
- Differentiate among primary type 1, primary type 2, and secondary osteoporosis
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- As individuals age, bone resorption can outpace bone replacement, which can lead to osteoporosis and fractures.
- As people get older, the rate of resorption tends to exceed the rate of replacement, leading to conditions like osteoporosis.
- Osteoporosis risks can be reduced with lifestyle changes and sometimes medication.
- With its anabolic effect, exercise may simultaneously stop or reverse osteoporosis, a component of frailty syndrome.
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- Along with osteomalacia, rickets, and osteoporosis, Paget's disease is associated with vitamin D deprivation.
- Paget's disease typically is localized, affecting just one or a few bones, as opposed to osteoporosis, for example, which affects all the bones in the body.
- These localized areas of osteolysis are seen radiologically as an advancing lytic wedge in long bones or osteoporosis circumscripta in the skull.
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- Female Athlete Triad is a syndrome in which eating disorders (or low energy availability), amenorrhoea/oligomenorrhoea, and decreased bone mineral density (osteoporosis and osteopenia) are present.
- Osteoporosis is defined by the National Institutes of Health as ‘a skeletal disorder characterized by compromised bone strength predisposing a person to an increased risk of fracture. ' Low estrogen levels and poor nutrition, especially low calcium intake, can lead to osteoporosis, the third aspect of the Triad.
- Patients with female athlete triad get osteoporosis due to hypoestrogenmia, or low estrogen levels, which is part of amenorrhea.
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- Low calcium intake may be a risk factor in the development of osteoporosis.
- With a better bone balance, the risk of osteoporosis is lowered.
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- Nuclear bone scans are not to be confused with the completely different test often termed a "bone density scan," DEXA or DXA, which is a low exposure X-ray test measuring bone density to look for osteoporosis and other diseases where bones lose mass, without any bone re-building (osteoblastic) activity.
- The bone scan is not sensitive to osteoporosis or multiple myeloma in bones, and, therefore, other techniques must be used to assess bone abnormalities from these diseases.
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- Research has suggested that trabecular bone volume in postmenopausal osteoporosis may be determined by the relationship between the total bone forming surface and the percent of surface resorption.
- Clinical Note: Osteoporosis means porous bone, which is caused by an over-reaction to osteoclastic bone resorption, and makes bones quite fragile for the elderly.
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- Although we often think of the elderly as feeble and weak, regular exercise can fight osteoporosis and maintain strength and flexibility.
- For these reasons, walking could be an appropriate approach to prevent osteoporosis and maintain bone mass.
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- Hip fractures are often due to osteoporosis.