Osteoporosis is a disease that affects men and women and is characterized by a descent of bone tissue, generating a deterioration of bone tissue by increasing bone fragility. The most common manifestation is a fracture and the consequences that derive from them.
It is a disease that affects more women than men, mainly to people aged over 50 years.
Two types of osteoporosis exist, the type I associated with menopause and type II age-related, affecting people aged over 70 years.
Some risk factors that predispose to suffer the disease are:
* Being a woman
* Posmenopáusica
* White, thin
* Having suffered a premature menopause
* Not having had children
* Be familiar precedents of osteoporosis
* A lifestyle
* A smoking
* Excessive consumption of alcohol
* Sub calcium intake
* A sedentary lifestyle
The clinical manifestation of this disease is fractures.
In type I: the factor that generates the development of osteoporosis in women still lack of estrogen, while men are not a significant bone loss before age 70.
In type II: the lack of vitamin D.
To diagnose the disease is conducting a study that bears the name of Densitometría dual energy X-ray or computed tomography can also be made.
To prevent it we must have an adequate intake of calcium and vitamin D, avoiding tobacco, alcohol, hormone replacement therapy in women posmenopáusicas and physical activity.
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