Bone osteoporosis: female patent?
Investigation revealed that bone osteoporosis in women than in men because women in post-menopausal estrogen who declined to fight, so that the rapid loss of bone mass, it caused a serious fracture.
According to one based on the 155 between the ages of 25-55 year-old female with at least a 50-year-old mother was alive, made the report on the survey, 65% of women think that their mother is very healthy, 40% of women that Their mothers do not have bone disease osteoporosis. This is the 40% of women, 24% believe that their mothers have suffered from osteoporosis bone of high-risk.
China Association of bone osteoporosis (Osteoporosis Society of Singapore, OSS) Chairman Dr. Xu Jiahui, said: "Modern women than their mothers pay more attention to health issues, and therefore more willing to assist their mothers into the path of health. Most people think that once suffered from Osteoporosis bone on the behalf of not save, this is not the case, the bone disease osteoporosis is treatable and preventable. We hope that these women can lead their mothers to carry out medical examination, treatment as soon as possible in order to reduce risk. "
Dr. Xu pointed out that over the age of 50 Singapore women, there are generally 15% suffering from hip (hip) skeletal osteoporosis. Moreover, the age and it has shown suffering from osteoporosis bone of the greater risk. Between the ages of 50-60 year-old Singaporean women, in general, there will be 5% of the bones known to be suffering from osteoporosis; between the ages of 60-70 year-old women, accounted for 10%; age between 70-80 years of age accounted for Women 25%; and more than 80-year-old women, while more than half are suffering from bone disease osteoporosis.
Therefore bone risk of osteoporosis for women, as if the quiet has become the number one killer, it could be tens of millions do not take it lightly. Dr. Xu with a look at our bones for osteoporosis visit.
1. Who will suffer from osteoporosis bone?
Osteoporosis by bone mineral density measurement (Bone Mineral Density, referred to as BMD) to identify, decreased bone, bone fragility, bone thinning organizations or consumed, resulting in broken bones and rattle easily. Bone density increased with the growth and development, women in general in the bone after puberty, and in the end of the year-end 20-year-old to 30 arrive at the peak, also known as bone peak (peak bone mass).
Until women reach menopause, or about 50 years old, still in its BMD is stable or slightly reduced. And osteoporosis in menopausal period of 5-10 years will be lost quickly, and then will gradually be changed to reduce.
Whether a person will suffer from osteoporosis, or bone, also known as low bone mass (low bone density), depends on whether the individual child to adult, whether or not to build sufficient bone mass, or whether it was faced with the loss of bone mass .
Osteoporosis is a bone of elderly patients, but does not mean that the elderly will inevitably suffer.
2. Caused by osteoporosis causes bones?
Bone caused by osteoporosis, including the reasons for the genetic composition of the (genetic makeup), when children learn enough calcium, pregnancy weight, sit-life (sedentary lifestyle), as well as delayed puberty (delayed puberty).
Early menopause, such as the lack of estrogen (estrogen deficiency), aging (which can affect hormone levels of calcium to help balance the body), disease, drugs, long-term mobility, weight, personal or family history of fracture, the lack of long-term Calcium, etc, as well as smoking is the cause bone disease osteoporosis.
3. Not a balanced diet, family genetics, smoking and alcohol affect bone suffering from osteoporosis chance?
Not a balanced diet occurred among women in general, serious this will lead to weight loss and menopause. Not a balanced diet to build bone of great impact, so as a result of a lack of bone mass.
As a result of the same gene, so if there are family members suffering from osteoporosis bone history, so will the corresponding increase in bone suffering from osteoporosis. Those who have drunk alcohol and bone osteoporosis draw on the relationship between the loss of bone mass caused a great impact.
If you do not draw enough daily calcium and vitamin D, will also increase the risk of bone disease osteoporosis. The lack of movement make it hip limb-girdle weakness, as well as the increase in the imbalance caused by standing the risk of falls.
4. Why bone disease osteoporosis more common in women?
Women and men both suffer from bone disease osteoporosis risk, however, fewer women than men fracture. Survey pointed out that women than men wrist fractures occurred in the rate of up to 4 times as high as 3 times the spine bones and hip bones as much as 2 times.
The reason is because of the late menopausal women, is a high risk of suffering from bone disease osteoporosis group.
5. What is a hip fracture (hip fracture)?
Osteoporosis bone leading to bone fragility, but also because of a slight injury caused catagmatic. Hip, spine and forearm fractures are most common, but do not forget, all the body's bones were broken, there will be risks.
Hip fractures have the greatest damage. His condition will usually lead to a variety of other diseases, the body function failure, which led to early death. After statistics, for every 5 patients with hip fractures, there is a can not safely through in the first year, while a can ourselves without the help of the road, 2 of the need for action to help, and there is a The loss of the ability to live independently as well as the need to rely on a wheelchair to bed or long bed.
6. Women than men have a greater risk of hip fracture risk?
Women suffer from the risk of hip fracture than men 2-3 times. However, compared to women, most of the men once suffered from hip fractures will die within a year.
According to one in Singapore from 1991 to 1998 based on hip fracture report on the survey, compared with the 1960s survey, women suffer from hip fractures has been rising as high as 5 times that of men increased by 1.5 times. Moreover, cases of hip fracture among the highest in Asia, is about to arrive in the West the number of hip fractures.
7. What are the reasons leading to hip fracture cases rising?
So far, there is not a country to find the face of rising hip fracture. However, I believe the main reason for including the city's modern development, lack of physical activity and then let the muscles atrophy, leading to easy to fall.
Today, a wide variety of foods available in the market, especially with high calcium foods. Calcium may also be a result of a young man did not draw enough calcium, the calcium in their old age as a result of the reduction in risk facing a high risk of fracture.
8. How much a person of calcium?
Calcium needs to be based on different age groups to determine. Growing youth daily recommended 1,000 mg of calcium lessons, you need a day for adults 700-800 mg, more than 50-year-old will need to 800-1000 mg of calcium.
9. How do I know they have the bone disease osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a bone by bone BMD measurement of quality, and X-ray two-photon absorption method (dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, referred to as DXA) and identification. The island-wide government and private clinics have all these measurements with instruments.
Due to the high cost of the BMD, it is not suitable for everyone to do bone measurement, but at a high risk of suffering from osteoporosis bone people, is a different matter.
Asians for the loose bone self-assessment method (Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool for Asians, OSTA) is a simple and help osteoporosis bone scan. Age and weight reduction are likely to have a bone osteoporosis drawn relations. Therefore, OSTA a combination of international standards, and the calculation of the DXA bone osteoporosis patients into low, medium and high risk of suffering from bone disease osteoporosis.
10. Treatment of osteoporosis bone there any way?
General drug therapy will be used, such as two-flexor phosphorus acid, such as alendronate, risedronate and selective estrogen modulator (raloxifene). The upcoming adoption of new health care law has parathyroid hormone (parathyroid hormone)
Sr (strontium) and Iban bisphosphonates (ibandronate) to deal with. Today, relatively few have been used in medicine, there are calcitonin (calcitonin), HRT (hormone replacement therapy, HRT), as well as two-phosphate type of drug (etidronate). These generally require therapy with calcium supplements taken together.
11. What life could be used to improve the bone disease osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a bone can be prevented. In the growth process, absorb enough calcium and exercise can strengthen bones and prevent loss of bone density can affect the situation, such as menopause and smoking.
In adulthood, calcium and absorb it is doing exercises to be, it could have been avoided as a result of menopause and old age and cause bone loss. There are many drugs can help patients to increase bone mineral density as well as to strengthen.
12. Patients can do sports?
For older people, recommended by the weight-bearing exercise there is movement, such as jogging or playing boxing. This multi-sport training for the hip and leg muscles in order to reduce the risk of falls. Research survey shows that regular physical training and persistent campaign to maintain or increase bone density. However, due to excessive movement caused by the rapid drop in body weight or stop by the phenomenon, will damage the bones.
13. Food should pay attention to what?
Healthy bone calcium is needed for nutrition, phosphorus and vitamin D. And other minerals necessary although no direct help, but also strengthen bones have the assistance of indirectly, including magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride, manganese, zinc, copper and iron.
Calcium may be the source of milk and dairy products lessons, such as cheese and yoghurt; green leafy vegetables such as Kale, Cabbage and Spinach; products; such as fish fry and Jiang have the bone sardines. And vitamin D may be in the fortified milk, breakfast grains, eggs, fish oil (oily fish) and cod liver oil to obtain.
To draw calcium and vitamin D, in order to supplement pills a way to eat is also a good idea.
Doctor:
Dr. Xu Jiahui Today, as China's Association for bone osteoporosis (Osteoporosis Society of Singapore, OSS) Chairman, and endocrinology and internal medicine specialist, who is also the consultant. In his 2000 to 2004 in Singapore General Hospital Endocrinology Department as the Department of calcium and obesity (obesity) services director. He wrote more than 40 medical books, attended numerous speeches of Medicine.
Association Skeletal osteoporosis at: http://www.osteoporosissoc.org.sg/
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Laurel Lee (Maggie) President, the 60-year-old
Bone osteoporosis due to calcium in the bones of a long period of gradual loss, caused by thinning bones become brittle. The most common reason for this is not enough calcium in the body with aging.
Maggie's mother passed away when 82-year-old, due to the bone disease osteoporosis, and her mother are not careful in wrestling, caused by the bursting of the thigh. Coupled with the bed, and advanced age, health gradually decline, leading to continued health-ridden, and the death of.
Maggie publication in a telephone interview, said: "Although my mother's death was due to wrestling, which led to a sick-ridden before the death. But the most fundamental reason for this is that she suffered from skeletal osteoporosis, causing her to fall upon Devastated. "
"Mother living cutting seasonal draw with calcium milk, and she Aihe coffee. I understand that coffee on the loss of calcium will have an impact. But, basically for elderly care will be less attention."
"If the mother is not sick, I will not have to pay more attention to skeletal osteoporosis. As a result, since she passed away in 1999, I began to pay attention to their health, learn more calcium and so on. After all, the family's genetic reasons, I had to remind myself from time to time, "she said.
Now, Maggie in the diet and health are very careful to ensure that she would draw their own food in sufficient calcium, such as food drink and eat beans, soy milk, tofu, Dougan, and so on, and also to avoid eating too much fat Greasy food, and so on. Chang He coffee for the same before, she now has its own restrictions will be able to serve a day after a couple of drinks.
Each week she must do three sports, such as walking 30-1 minutes, there are some simple weight lifting. Moreover, regardless of whether or not she was very tired that day, after meals, watching TV, she must try not to sit on the sofa, but a stool to do follow up and down movement as long as half an hour.
Maggie asked whether there is a "force" her husband with her campaign, she Xiaoyan: "My husband is the law of life is that he has encouraged me to do more exercise. That is why we are husband and wife together from time to time, exercise, and to accompany each other Encouraging. "
She said: "As far as medical check-up showed that my husband's body belongs to the normal levels of calcium, and on my level a little lower than normal. Because I always pay attention to the action can not be too much, and so on."
For now the only son to study abroad, Maggie often remind him to do more exercise to strong bones.
Published in the "U me" Health magazine. Sept. Tsai Tao
