Posts Tagged ‘Osteoporosis’
Dangers of Being Overweight in Old Age
Obesity and overweight are defined as excessive body energy reserves, mainly as fat, although it is known that in both cases the health is at risk, older adults increases the risk. This may be the time to take action to prevent future problems, do not you think?
Increased body fat is always manifested by weight gain, but this does not mean that all people who weigh more than what is considered normal to be obese. To find anthropometric indicators have been established as weight, height, thickness of skin folds and circumferences (waist and hip).
However, body mass index (BMI) is a medical tool that determines how much a person has exceeded the reserves of energy as fat. For BMI, divide the number of its weight in kilograms by the result of his height squared, if the shunt is less than 24.9 kg/m2 your weight is normal, if it goes from 25 to 29.9 kg/m2 means overweight. On the other hand, obesity is defined in three classes: the first corresponds to a BMI between 30 and 34.9 kg/m2, second, or risk, 35 to 39.9 kg/m2 and the latter in the sounding the alarm of danger, the index exceeds 40. Read the rest of this entry »
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Osteoporosis Treatment
Once diagnosed, the main form of treatment is the use of medication to prevent or delay the continued loss of bone or more rarely, increase bone mass.
Medical treatment is most commonly prescribed hormone replacement therapy. Prescribed estrogen with or without progestins, at low doses with the idea of recovering the lost endogenous hormone levels with menopause or after surgery in which the ovaries have been removed. Other treatments include calcitonin, bisphosphonates, vitamin D and PTH.
The best treatment for osteoporosis is prevention. An adequate intake of calcium and physical activity during adolescence and youth, may increase the peak bone mass, resulting in reduced bone loss and lower fracture risk in later years. Adequate intake of calcium and vitamins during maturation is essential for bone health.
In cases of early menopause, women should take estrogen to prevent post-menopausal loss of bone is due to add a progestogen if uterus is intact.
Estrogen replacement therapy is effective in preventing post-menopausal loss of bone and is also effective in preventing osteoporotic fractures. Hormone replacement therapy requires close monitoring and careful gynecologic patient selection.
Post-menopausal women with low bone mass or osteoporosis and have established contraindication to hormone replacement therapy, bisphosphonates (alendronate or etidronate) and calcitonin are effective medications to prevent bone loss. Read the rest of this entry »
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Vegetarian Diet and Bone Health
This feeding is associated with lower bone mineral density, but no cause for clinical concern. The association between vegetarian diets and bone mineral density is controversial.
The debate centers on the possibility that this type of food results in a lower bone mass, as some studies, compared to other investigations that have found no statistical significance in this relationship.
The issue concerned because BMD is the strongest and most consistent predictor of fractures associated with osteoporosis.
In Western countries, a considerable proportion of the population has adopted a vegetarian diet that includes foods not found in traditional diets as the best for the formation and growth of bones.
The quality and quantity of ingested nutrients (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin D, A, K) and the consumption of other dietary elements that promote or hinder the absorption of minerals that nourish the bone, have a significant imprint on health marrow.
These factors add up to each individual’s genetic predisposition to develop bone disorders.
The latest review on the possible association between diet and bone mineral density, a controversial issue, is a meta-analysis conducted by the Bone and Mineral Research Program Garvan Institute of Medical Research, picked up this October in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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Suffer a Bone Fracture Due to Osteoporosis
One in two women and one in four men over age 50 will suffer a bone fracture due to osteoporosis
A quarter of people who break a hip die within the first anniversary of the injury. A study of the Spanish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology warns that one in two women and one in four men over age 50 will suffer a bone fracture due to osteoporosis. The broken bone is the result “more serious” of this disease as “one of every four people who fracture a hip die before the year,” said study coordinator, Dr. Manuel Mesa Ramos.
The researchers stressed the importance of preventing a disorder that affects a majority of females from menopause. Once menstruation is lost, it creates a deficit in the production of estrogen or female hormones that, among other functions, has a mission to fix calcium to the bones. This explains why the patient type of osteoporosis is a woman who is over 60 years and goes to the consultation because it hurts his back, in the area of the dorsal vertebrae, the height of the blades, detailed the department head of Orthopedic Surgery Chiron and Traumatology Hospital of Bilbao, Inaki MÃnguez. Read the rest of this entry »
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