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
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.
