Osteoporosis OSTEOPOROSIS –IN OLD AGE AND GERIATRICS

Generalized osteoporosis in old age.

It is well known that frequently the bones become rarefied in old age and it is commonly believed that this rarefaction or osteoporosis is a physiological process. Generalized osteoporosis, however, occurs in a considerable proportion of the population long before old age is reached. In the pre-senile group many factors have been held responsible for the thinning of bones, and it seems possible...

Closing the osteoporosis care gap – Increased osteoporosis awareness among geriatrics and rehabilitation teams

BACKGROUND A care gap exists between recommendations and practice regarding the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in fracture patients. The current study was designed to determine rates and predictors of in-hospital diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in patients admitted with fragility hip fractures, and to assess differences in these rates since the outset of the multipronged "Fract...

Osteoporosis and sarcopenia in older age.

Osteoporosis and sarcopenia are common in older age and associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Consequently, they are both attended by a considerable socioeconomic burden. Osteoporosis was defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1994 as a bone mineral density of less than 2.5 standard deviations below the sex-specific young adult mean and this characterisation has been a...

Osteoporosis

استئوپروز، وضعیتی سیستمیک از کاهش کلی در توده یا دانسیته استخوان است که در آن تخریب استخوانی سریعتر از تشکیل آن می باشد. این عارضه که بیماری استخوان شکننده نیز نامیده می شود، فرایندی غیر قابل تغییر است که در آن استخوان ها به علت کاهش دانسیته در معرض شکستگی قرار می گیرند. میزان شیوع این عارضه یک نفر از هر ۴ زن و یک نفر از هر ۱۲ مرد می باشد، که در زنان بعد از یائسگی تا ۳۳ درصد افزایش می یابد و به...

Osteoporosis in Iran