Osteoporosis
Screening for osteoporosis among high-risk populations, including postmenopausal women, is essential. Women found to have low bone density due to osteoporosis or osteopenia (a precursor to osteoporosis) can reduce their risk of future bone fracture with lifestyle changes and drug therapies. The…
Fragility fractures are a common — but not inevitable — part of aging. These bone fractures, which occur during normal activities or following a fall, are a leading cause of pain, disability and loss of independence among older adults. Approximately half of all women and a quarter of all men age 50…
“Es que a mí me encanta achicharrarme”, me dijo hace unos días una buena amiga con la que conversaba. “Y así me lleno de vitamina D, porque siempre he andado bajita y me tengo que suplementar”.
Nuts, if you eat them in moderation, are full of healthy nutrients for your heart and may even help you ward off other diseases like cancer. So why do only 4 in 10 of Americans eat them on any given day — and a measly 1 in 10 eat them daily?
Let me give you the bad news with the good: We’re falling down more often on our way to longer lives.
Despite everything we’ve been told about milk building strong bones and making us healthy, that may not be the case once we’re middle-aged adults, a new Swedish study suggests.
May is National Osteoporosis Month - a good time to assess your risk of breaking a bone and figure out the best way for you to avoid osteoporosis down the road.
By Jenny Gold, Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, we lose 1 percent of bone mass every year after 50. In fact, for some of us, especially women, bone loss can happen very quickly, causing us to lose up to 20 percent of our bone density during the five to seven years following menopause, paving the…
There's a silent and stealthy disease you may not even know you have ...until you fall.