| Before you can prevent osteoporosis, you need to | | | | bone can really affect a woman's life. It can cause |
| know what it is. Your bones consist of osteoblasts | | | | disability, pain, or loss of independence. |
| and osteclasts. Osteoblasts in particular help to keep | | | | Other causes of osteoporosis are heredity and |
| your bones fresh by destroying older weaker bone, | | | | lifestyle. Whites and Asians, tall and thin women and |
| but when the osteoblasts begin working harder than | | | | those with a history of osteoporosis are those at |
| the osteclasts, osteoporosis occurs. Osteoporosis is | | | | the highest risk of getting osteoporosis. The |
| when your bones get weaker and eventually hollow | | | | behavioral causes of increasing the risk of |
| out, making you susceptible to bone fractures. | | | | osteoporosis are smoking, alcohol abuse, prolonged |
| Osteoporosis is a disease of bones which makes | | | | inactivity and a diet low in calcium. There are also |
| them weak and more prone to fractures. Anyone | | | | some diseases that are associated with aging that |
| can suffer from osteoporosis but it is more common | | | | cause osteoporosis, which include kidney failure, liver |
| in older women. In osteoporosis bone mineral density | | | | disease, cancers, Paget’s disease, endocrine or |
| is reduced and architecture of the bone is disrupted. | | | | glandular diseases, gonadal failure and rheumatoid |
| Osteoporosis is a disease wherein there is a high risk | | | | arthritis. There are some medications like steroids, |
| for bone fracture due to decrease in bone density. | | | | seizure drugs, thyroid hormone and blood thinners |
| Epidemiology shows that females are more vulnerable | | | | that are also found to cause osteoporosis. |
| to osteoporosis than males. Currently, there are over | | | | Individual circumstances determine which treatment |
| 10 million osteoporosis cases in the US. A very | | | | approaches are most appropriate.Calcium and vitamin |
| important health care problem which is osteoporosis | | | | D The body's ability to absorb dietary calcium |
| accounts to over 1.5 million cases of fractures yearly. | | | | diminishes with advancing age. As well, people tend to |
| Osteoporosis commonly happens when there is an | | | | drink less milk and consume fewer dairy products, |
| abnormally high bone reabsorption and inability to | | | | the primary sources of dietary calcium, as they get |
| produce sufficient new bone tissue. Normally, an old | | | | older. Most adults should take calcium supplements to |
| bone is reabsorbed and a new bone is produced. | | | | get 1000 to 1200 milligrams of calcium daily combined |
| Production of a new bone is faster in younger age, | | | | with dietary calcium. Though calcium cannot restore |
| especially in children, infants and adolescents. Bone | | | | bone structure that is already lost to osteoporosis, |
| development is slower and leads to lesser density of | | | | the bones need abundant calcium simply to maintain |
| bone tissues at around age thirty. Later on, bone | | | | bone remodeling. Vitamin D is necessary for the body |
| reabsorption happens when the production is | | | | to absorb calcium.Estrogen Before the 1990s doctors |
| excessive resulting in decrease of bone strength. | | | | routinely prescribed hormone replacement therapy |
| Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become | | | | (HRT) for women going through and women beyond |
| fragile and more likely to break. Osteoporosis often | | | | menopause. The prevailing belief was that HRT |
| was thought to be a condition that frail elderly | | | | provided protection for women against |
| women develop. Osteoporosis leads to literally | | | | Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and osteoporosis. |
| abnormally porous bone that is more compressible like | | | | Extensive studies demonstrated that HRT provided |
| a sponge, than dense like a brick. This disorder of the | | | | no protection for heart disease and in fact increased |
| skeleton weakens the bone leading to an increase in | | | | the risk for some kinds of CVD (notably Stroke) as |
| the risk of breaking bones (bone fracture). A broken | | | | well as some forms of cancer. |