0 a disease that causes the bones to become weaker and easily broken:
1 a medical condition that causes the bones to weaken and become easy to break
Osteoporosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly, particularly in postmenopausal women (4).
At one end of the spectrum, osteoporosis was defined as a disease.
Evidence-based medicine and osteoporosis: a comparison of fracture risk reduction data from osteoporosis randomised clinical trials.
The cause of premature osteoporosis in patients with major depression has not been definitively determined.
In an earlier review1 the problems of origin, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis were discussed.
Manifestations of its agonistic activity include beneficial actions (potential reduction in osteoporosis and fractures) and harmful actions (increase in the incidence of endometrial carcinoma).
The implications in the elderly for calcium metabolism, and in particular osteoporosis risk, have not been investigated.
Symmetric osteoporosis in the eye sockets of young and middle-aged adults was present.
