What is Osteoporosis? A recent consensus conference defined osteoporosis as a metabolic bone disease characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deteriorations of bone tissue leading to enhanced bone fragility and consequent increase in fracture risk.

Osteoporosis is the most prevalent metabolic bone disease in the US and other developed countries. Vertebral fracture prevalence among women aged 65 has been estimated to be 27% .*

If you think you are developing osteoporosis, go see your physician for diagnosis and treatment. One indicator that you can measure is loss of height, stand near a wall, mark your height. If over the years you start losing height, that is a sign of osteoporosis.

* R. Wasnich, Epidemiology of Osteoporosis, Primer on the Metabolic Bone


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