osteoporosis is the bone disorder in which bone becomes weak and there is lost calcium and occurs with increasing age..It effect females after menopause.and need to take calcium tablets. and treatment from doctor(ortho)

Answered by Shikha Tomer , an ibibo Advisor, at 9:02 PM on June 26, 2008

Weakning of bones. It is caused due to defeciency of calcium and lack of exercise.

Answered by Shivv goel , an ibibo Citizen, at 8:35 PM on June 22, 2008

Literally, it means "porous bone". Osteoporosis is a disease which makes bones fragile and easy to fracture; and is mostly found in post-menopausal women. Osteoporosis is caused due to a reduction in bone mass as age increases. Maximum bone mass occurs between ages 20 and 30. After 30, bone mass gradually reduces. In women after menopause, bone mass shrinks even faster. This increases the risk of fracture.

Besides fractures, osteoporosis also causes stooped posture, chronic pain and disability. It shows no symptoms; it progresses painlessly until the bones become so fragile that even routine activities (like coughing or hugging) cause a fracture. In women, this disease is more common than stroke, heart attack and breast cancer combined.


What are the symptoms of osteoporosis? How is it diagnosed?

Osteoporosis has no symptoms. A woman can feel perfectly well today and have a hip fracture tomorrow. Even x-rays reveal the disease only after it has reached advanced stage. Bone Mineral Density Test (BMT) or Bone Densitometry is a painless procedure that diagnoses osteoporosis at an early stage when its development can be halted with effective treatment.


How does osteoporosis affect the patient

Fractures of the hip, spine and wrist are the most common consequences. Hip fracture is the most serious since patients become unable to lead a normal life or move freely; often they have to be admitted to a nursing home. When the spine is affected, a simple action like bending to make the bed can be enough to cause a 'crush fracture'. This causes humped back, decreased height and chronic pain. A fall that would just sprain the average person, can easily break one or more bones in somebody with severe osteoporosis.

Answered by deepa iyer , an ibibo Advisor, at 7:43 PM on June 12, 2008

Osteoporosis is described as decrease in the calcium level from bones in the body leading to extremely porous bones.Bone density decreases in women after menopause and they are prone to fractufres if fall down.Even old people are subjected to low calcium level in the bones hence subjected to osteoporosis.One must increase the intake of calcium in their diet to reduce the risk of osteoporosis.
Intake of milk ,milk poducts,nuts,rajamh,chola etc.must be inluded along with calcium supplement to reduce calcium intake.
For more details refer to www.wikipedia.org

Answered by anitaraizada , an ibibo Specialist, at 9:17 PM on June 10, 2008

Dear JKS Marven !
Osteoporis is the desease in which human bones get damaged as Chalk.these becomes very whisker and breaks in every jurks on bones.that creats many problem related to jints.
Smoking is the main cause to produce osteoporisis...
with best regards from my end...........Sanjay

Answered by Sanjay , an ibibo Specialist, at 11:25 AM on June 09, 2008

Lack of calcium can cause all sorts of problems - the most common being osteoporosis and teeth problems. Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous proteins in bone is altered

Answered by Vidya Anand , an ibibo Advisor, at 10:39 AM on June 09, 2008

Osteoporosis is a disease of bones. In this disease the bones become weak and are more likely to break. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous proteins in bone is altered.

Answered by Meera , an ibibo Master, at 9:31 PM on June 07, 2008

Osteoporosis is a type of deases afects bones, in older person generaly.
It occers when calcium deficiency happened and the calcium is not replaced by food or by medicine.
The deases causes microscopic porus in human bone making the bone weak and it is weaken so much it could be broken.

Answered by Subhro , an ibibo Citizen, at 4:24 PM on June 06, 2008

Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that leads to an increased risk of fracture. In osteoporosis the bone mineral density (BMD) is reduced, bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous proteins in bone is altered. Osteoporosis is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in women as a bone mineral density 2.5 standard deviations below peak bone mass (20-year-old healthy female average) as measured by DXA, the term "established osteoporosis" includes the presence of a fragility fracture. Osteoporosis is most common in women after menopause, when it is called postmenopausal osteoporosis, but may also develop in men, and may occur in anyone in the presence of particular hormonal disorders and other chronic diseases or as a result of medications, specifically glucocorticoids, when the disease is called steroid- or glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (SIOP or GIOP). Given its influence on the risk of fragility fracture, osteoporosis may significantly affect life expectancy and quality of life.

Osteoporosis can be prevented with lifestyle advice and sometimes medication, and in people with osteoporosis treatment may involve lifestyle advice, preventing falls and medication (calcium, vitamin D, bisphosphonates and several others).

Answered by Hem@nt , an ibibo Master, at 10:59 AM on June 06, 2008

well;
Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become fragile and brittle, leading to a higher risk of fractures (breaks or cracks) than in normal bone.
Osteoporosis occurs when bones lose minerals, such as calcium, more quickly than the body can replace them, leading to a loss of bone thickness (bone mass or density). As a result, bones become thinner and less dense, so that even a minor bump or accident can cause serious fractures. These are known as fragility or minimal trauma fractures.
Any bone can be affected by osteoporosis, but the most common sites are bones in the hip, spine, wrist, ribs, pelvis and upper arm. Osteoporosis usually has no signs or symptoms until a fracture happens - this is why osteoporosis is often called the 'silent disease'.
Fractures due to osteoporosis (osteoporotic fractures) can lead to changes in posture (eg developing a stoop or Dowager's hump in your back), muscle weakness, loss of height and bone deformity of the spine. Fractures can lead to chronic pain, disability, loss of independence and even premature death.
Every 8 minutes, someone is admitted to an Australian hospital with an osteoporotic fracture. This is expected to rise to every 3 - 4 minutes by the year 2021, as the population ages and the number of osteoporotic fractures increase.

Answered by kishore , an ibibo Master, at 8:07 AM on June 06, 2008