Osteoporosis Articles

Osteoporosis comes from the Greek words osteon meaning bone and poros meaning passage. Thus, osteoporosis means "porous bone." Medically speaking, it is a disease wherein the bones become porous due to low bone mass and bone tissue deterioration. It is a silent disease since no symptoms are observed as bone loss happens within the body. The disease is only detected when our bones become so fragile that they easily break and heal in a very slow process. Other symptoms include loss of height and sudden, severe back pain. It may also lead to collapse of the vertebral column, causing curvature of the spine known as kyphosis.

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Choosing A Calcium Supplement
Calcium is important for contraction of muscles (including our heart, a muscular organ), transmission of nerve impulses, secretion of hormones and en ...

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Managing Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis can involve any age but the most affected are women over the age of 50. In fact, 200,000 American women in this age group not known to h ...

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Understanding Our Bones
Around 10 million Americans currently have osteoporosis. Around 34 million have low bone mass, meaning the current osteoporosis cases may still conti ...

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What Is Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis comes from the Greek words osteon meaning bone and poros meaning passage. Thus, osteoporosis means "porous bone." Medically speaking, it ...

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What Are Hip Fractures?
The hips are the bone between our waist and thigh and to which the lower extremities of our body are attached. The hip joint is the area where the th ...

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