Showing posts with label bone fractures due to Osteoporosis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bone fractures due to Osteoporosis. 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."

Saturday, 9 April 2016

Surgery Better For Osteoporosis, Than Widely Used Medications

For Treating a Leading Cause of Osteoporosis, Surgery Is Better Than Widely Used Medications


For Treating a Leading Cause of Osteoporosis, Surgery Is Better Than Widely Used Medications

UCLA study finds that using drugs to combat hyperparathyroidism is worse than doing nothing at all

Newswise — While most cases of osteoporosis are caused by normal aging, another leading cause of the bone-loss disease is a condition called hyperparathyroidism, in which the parathyroid glands release an excessive amount of a hormone that regulates the body’s calcium levels........

I found this article may be of help to people suffering from Osteoporosis.