Examples of osteoporosis

• Assessment of fracture risk and its application to screening for postmenopausal osteoporosis.

• Given that numerous painful conditions, such as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and neuropathies, are more common with age, this finding is perhaps counterintuitive.

• Although osteoporosis is widely known as a common disease of women, many people are unaware that it is also a common disease of men.

• Those associated with beta thalassaemia syndromes include complications related to osteoporosis and diabetes.

• Primary barriers for adapting physical activity include a lack of time, injury and pain associated with weight-bearing activities, neuropathy and osteoporosis.

• Alcohol-related fractures are common in chronic alcohol misuse and are associated with reduced bone mass and a higher incidence of osteoporosis.

• Several interventions, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic, have shown various degrees of effectiveness to prevent osteoporosis (19) and hip fractures (25).

• Symmetric osteoporosis in the eye sockets of young and middle-aged adults was present.