O steoporosis is a systemic disorder characterized by microarchitectural deterioration of bone and increased susceptibility to fracture. Although osteoporosis can occur in men, it is principally a disease of women, who account for 80% of such cases and in whom osteoporosis (together with heart disease and cancer) is one of the three most common medical conditions.1-3 According to the National O...

Osteoporosis is a disease characterized by "weak" bones. It is a great public health problem, affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, predominantly postmenopausal women. The main clinical outcome of the disease is bone fracture. Hip and spine fractures are the most serious fractures associated with pain, disability, and even death. Osteoporosis imposes a significant burden on both t...

Patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) are increasing aware of the consequence osteoporosis. Low bone turnover, impaired osteoblast function, and low blood osteocalcin levels hallmarks osteoporosis in CLD, which mostly affects trabecular bone. Osteoporosis is public health issue metabolic among every age group throughout globe especially Pakistan. The current study was conducted DHQ, KPK, Pa...

  Background :SCORE, OST and ORAI risk assessment tools could reduce the cost burden of BMD tests by selecting the high risk patients to osteoporosis. In this study we compared the ability of these risk assessment measures to assess probability of the osteoporosis among post-menopausal women.   Methods : 211 post-menopausal women aged 45-88 years enrolled into the study. All of the patients und...

This paper presents a comprehensive measure of the incremental economic burden of mental illness in Canada which incorporates the use of medical resources and productivity losses due to long-term and short-term disability, as well as reductions in health-related quality of life (HRQOL), for the diagnosed and undiagnosed population with mental illness. The analysis was based on the population-ba...

Osteoporosis is a medical condition that is seen commonly in elderly patients, and it is associated with a large burden of morbidity and mortality. This article provides a practical approach to the workup and management of osteoporosis in patients 65 years or older.