Showing posts with label Bone fragility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bone fragility. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 February 2017

Tracking bone changes in women during menopause may help prevent fractures

Tracking bone changes in women during menopause may help prevent fractures:

Very important to keep checking bone changes during Menopause.

Bone fragility has long been a worrisome condition affecting women as they age.

"It's been considered a silent disease," says Karl Jepsen, Ph.D., associate chair of research and professor of orthopedic surgery at Michigan Medicine, noting, "One of the biggest challenges, when you're looking at age-related bone fragility is to identify people who will fracture."