With the progressive aging of the population, osteoporosis has gradually grown into a global health problem for men and women aged 50 years and older because of its consequences in terms of disabilities and fragility fractures. This is especially true in the People's Republic of China, which has the largest population and an increasing proportion of elderly people, as osteoporosis has become a ...

Osteoporosis is a systemic disease of the bone that affects millions of people and causes burden for both the affected individual and health systems and societies worldwide. Since the 1970s much research has been done in the field of osteoporosis. The number of citations of a paper reflects its influence and importance to the field. Thomson ISI Web of Science database was searched to retrieve a...

Changes in body composition, including a decrease in muscle and bone mass, accompany aging. Our aim was to assess the prevalence of sarcopenia and its association with osteoporosis in hip-fracture women. We performed a Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan in 313 of 340 women, 20.9 ± 6.5 (mean ± S.D.) days after hip-fracture occurrence. To adjust appendicular lean mass for body size we di...

BACKGROUND Osteoporosis affects 200 million people worldwide and places an enormous economic burden on society. We aim to identify the feature genes that are related to osteoprotegerin in osteoporosis and to perform function analysis with DNA microarray from human bone marrow. METHODS We downloaded the gene expression profile GSE35957 from Gene Expression Omnibus database including nine gene ...

Osteoporosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A.A. Ionescu, E. Schoon. #ERS Journals Ltd 2003. ABSTRACT: Osteoporosis is one of the systemic effects associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Potential risk factors of osteoporosis may be due to the lifestyle, genetics, treatment with corticosteroids, endocrine abnormalities or the impairment of the body composition a...

aim: investigating factors affecting the adoption of preventive behaviors in women with osteoporosis is necessary. this study aims at determining the preventive treatment of osteoporosis in women in fasa using the health belief model (hbm) during 2014. method: in this cross-sectional study, 401 women (aged 30-50 years) covered by the health centers in fasa city were randomly chosen. construct o...

BACKGROUND Osteoporotic fractures cause a large health burden and substantial costs. This study estimated the expected fracture numbers and costs for the remaining lifetime of postmenopausal women in Germany. METHODS A discrete event simulation (DES) model which tracks changes in fracture risk due to osteoporosis, a previous fracture or institutionalization in a nursing home was developed. Ex...

ging of the population is expected to increase the frequency, cost, and burden of fractures associated with agerelated bone loss. Guidelines on prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis are available from several organizations. In July, 2013, the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) released an update to its Health Care Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatmen...

BACKGROUND Ageing of population worldwide will be responsible for a major increase of the incidence of osteoporosis in elderly. For the individual, osteoporotic fractures result in great disability as well as loss of quality of life and also represent an enormous burden for healthcare systems. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of osteoporosis and its association with serum vi...