You Can Prevent Osteoporosis:

You Can Prevent Osteoporosis

You Can Prevent Osteoporosis:

Osteoporosis is often called the silent disease, because a woman feels no pain as her bones gradually thin to the point where even a slight bump or a fit of coughing can cause a fracture. Diagnostic techniques have been so poor that the pain from these breaks was often the first sign of a problem. No more. The best tool for diagnosing brittle bones is called a bone-mineral-density test; the new generation of machines includes the DXA, the most accurate. All the tests use sophisticated X-rays or monograms to read bone density. A bone-density score of 1 or less is considered safe. Scoring between 1 and 2.5 could indicate a risk for the disease but doesn't guarantee it; 2.5 or above indicates bone loss of 25 percent or more, the definition of osteoporosis.

Should you ask your doctor for a bone-density test? The key word here is "ask," because many physicians seem to be somewhat in the dark about diagnosing and treating osteoporosis. According to the National Osteoporosis Risk Assessment, 80 percent of low bone mass and osteoporosis goes undiagnosed. "Women need to be proactive about this disease, and question their doctors and even provide information if need be," says Dr. Aurelia Nattiv, director of the UCLA Osteoporosis Center. She suggests following the National Osteoporosis Foundation guidelines on who should get the test, which is now routinely covered under Medicare. In general, while bone loss is a universal fact of life, sex, race and size all influence how much bone a woman will end up with, how great her risk of osteoporosis is and therefore how much she needs the bone test. African-American women have denser bones than Caucasian, Hispanic or Asian women, for instance: a recent study of 48,000 women found that only 38 percent of postmenopausal African-Americans had bone loss that could lead to osteoporosis, compared with 50 percent and more among Caucasians, Hispanics and Asians.

Don't panic if the test results make your bones look about as sturdy as butterfly wings. Several drugs, some old and some new, can halt and even reverse bone loss in women with osteoporosis. None of these drugs directly "builds" bones. Rather, they all reduce the body's tendency to slough off old bone cells, so new cells gradually fill in the holes. While this might result in only a 2 or 3 percent yearly increase in bone mass, that small amount can reduce the likelihood of painful fractures the real key to measuring the effectiveness of an osteoporosis drug. The pharmaceutical options:

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Newsweek, Spring/Summer, 1999

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Calcium Supplementation for Bone Density and Osteoporosis

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