Exempel på 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.

• The implications in the elderly for calcium metabolism, and in particular osteoporosis risk, have not been investigated.

• Manifestations of its agonistic activity include beneficial actions (potential reduction in osteoporosis and fractures) and harmful actions (increase in the incidence of endometrial carcinoma).

• In an earlier review1 the problems of origin, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis were discussed.

• The cause of premature osteoporosis in patients with major depression has not been definitively determined.

• Evidence-based medicine and osteoporosis: a comparison of fracture risk reduction data from osteoporosis randomised clinical trials.

• At one end of the spectrum, osteoporosis was defined as a disease.

• Osteoporosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly, particularly in postmenopausal women (4).