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Maintaining bone strength is an important component of overall health. Bones provide the structural support your body needs in order to function properly. And bone health becomes increasingly important as you grow older and hormonal changes begin to affect your skeleton.

The best treatment for osteoporosis is prevention. Adequate calcium consumption and weight-bearing exercise by adolescent and young adult women can increase peak bone mass which can reduce bone loss and lower the risk of fractures in later years.

We've all seen her on the street or in the supermarket: A frail, elderly woman with a stooped upper back. She used to be several inches taller than she is now. It's just something that happens as we get older, we think.

One out of 3 women and one out of 12 men suffer from . From an "old ladies disease", osteoporosis is now looked upon as a serious epidemic not only in Europe. You do not have to be old to suffer from osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis, often referred to as a silent disease, is characterized by low bone mass that leads to an increased risk of fracture. Bones most vulnerable to fracture are the hip, spine, and wrist.

Researchers at the Rush Center for Clinical Studies at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago will investigate whether the hormone replacement therapy tibolone prevents spinal fractures in osteoporotic postmenopausal women.

About 28 million Americans -- primarily women -- have a severe and potentially disabling disease but may not know it until they break a bone.* A new screening for bone density, which is closely related to bone strength, is available to diagnose and treat osteoporosis before it becomes a crippling fact.

It used to be only professional models, actresses and dancers who starved themselves to look thin. Today, it's a way of life for many Generation X women. Not only are they eating less, many are exercising to excess, cutting out dairy products altogether and smoking more.

Osteoporosis is a degenerative bone disease that affects approximately 24 million Americans. Of these, 33 percent are postmenopausal women who have decreased bone density due to lowered estrogen levels.

A young woman (P.A.) suffered from back pain for almost 2 years before contacting our Bone Metabolic Unit in 1996. She was a beautiful South-Italian woman, 26 years old, with dark eyes, dark hair, and an olive complexion.

To get enough calcium for growing bones, each day you need to eat foods whose %Daily Value for calcium adds up to 120 percent. Because the amount of calcium in foods can vary, read the food label check the %DV for calcium in what you eat.

Gene Expression Analysis in Human Osteoblasts Exposed to Dexamethasone Identifies Altered Developmental Pathways as Putative Drivers of Osteoporosis

During the two recent decades, advocacy has been a topic of much debate in the nursing profession. Although advocacy has embraced a crucial role for nurses, its extent is often limited in practice.

The Impact of Vitamin D Status on Changes in Bone Mineral Density During Treatment with Bisphosphonates and AfterDiscontinuation Following Long-term Use in Post-menopausal Osteoporosis

Osteoporotic fractures are common and are associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health care costs. The most effective way to moderate increases in health care costs and the sickness and premature death associated with osteoporotic fractures, is to prevent osteoporosis.

In this era of constrained health-care resources, a critical need exists for efficient, measurable systems of disease management that strike a balance between social responsibility and patient welfare.

Bone is continuously remodeled through a coupled process of bone resorption and formation.

Along with three cups of milk, have a serving or two of any of these foods to get more than 1,000 milligrams of calcium.

Osteoporosis is recognized as a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality in postmenopausal women. Several effective strategies, including calcium supplementation, weight-bearing exercise, and, most importantly, hormone replacement, have been developed to prevent or at least delay clinically significant bone loss.

-University of Cincinnati Launches Program to Help Close the Knowledge Gap-

According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), between 30 and 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant.

Hormone Replacement Therapy in Postmenopausal Women: Urinary N-Telopeptide of Type I Collagen Monitors Therapeutic Effect and Predicts Response of Bone Mineral Density

Preliminary Results of the Sunlight OmnisenseTM Bone Sonometer: In-vivo and In-vitro Precision and Correlation with DXA.

Hyperthyroidism in postmenopausal women is associated with accelerated bone loss that results in lower BMD as detected by DEXA, SPA, QCT as well as bone markers’ levels. However, there is no data of QUS evaluation in thyrotoxic patients.

Vertebral fracture is usually the earliest clinical manifestation of severe osteoporosis. Early detection of vertebral fracture risk is therefore crucial for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

In a recent study of women with repeated miscarriages and fibroids, researchers found that removing them significantly increased the live birth rate. This increase was noted with both fibroids that distorted the uterine cavity as well as those that did not.

Diethylstilbestrol, or DES, a synthetic form of estrogen, was prescribed from the early 1940s until 1971 to help women with certain complications of pregnancy, primarily miscarriages. Use of DES declined in the 1960s after studies showed that it might not be effective in preventing pregnancy complications.