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What is is osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a condition where bone creation is outpaced by bone loss. This causes bones to become brittle, and even mild stresses can lead to fracture. Osteoporosis can affect anyone, but white and Asian women past menopause are at highest risk.
What body system are affected by osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is basically a severe loss of bone density.
What is caused by the progressive loss of bone density?
Osteoporosis is a condition where one experiences a loss in bone density. It is most commonly found in older women. Due to the loss in density, bones are more prone to fractures.
What is marked loss of bone density and an increase in bone porosity is known as?
Osteoporosis
What disease is caused by the loss of bone calcium?
Calcium does much for the body, but the common answer for that is osteoporosis
Which condition causes a progressive loss of bone tissue?
Osteoporosis
What is the role of calcarea carbonica in osteoporosis?
To reduce bone loss
What is medical term for not strong bone?
Bone density loss or brittle bones Osteoporosis ,
In which phase of the life cycle is bone loss the greatest?
Bone loss is the greatest when you are really old and have osteoporosis, a disease where you lose bone strength.
This is a disease in which bones become brittle due to a loss of bone mass loss of calcium and a change in bone structure?
Osteoporosis
How can the loss of cancellous bone weaken a bone?
The Cancellous, or spongy bone is made of Trabeculae, which are thin rods or plates of bone that often run in the same direction as the stress applied to the bone. Stress on the bone may be in the form of gravity, or it may occur due to common force applied to the limb. Which can ultimately cause weakness in your bones.
Which refers to a bone disorder found most often in the aged and resulting in the bones becoming porous and light?
Osteopenia refers to a marked loss of bone density.Osteoporosis refers to a marked loss of bone density and an increase in bone porosity commonly associated with aging.
