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There are four major risk factors (and personally, I have ALL FOUR of them!): 1) family history of the disease, 2) cigarette smoking, 3) petite/small frame, and 4) Asian or Caucasian race.
There is potentially also a 5th risk factor (which I ALSO have!): history of eating disorders. Malnutrition leads to weaker bones.
If you have any of these risk factors, then you should be exercising regularly, eating properly, and, above all, you should be taking calcium supplements (preferably ones which have Vitamin D added to them, as calcium has a hard time being absorbed without Vitamin D).
Additional risk factors include post-menopausal status, inadequate exposure to sunlight, and chronic corticosteroid use.
Several things. Osteoporosis mostly occurs in women with low Vitamin D level as they get older as well as genetics, and it can also be caused by osteoarthitis which mean inflammation of the joints and the bones. Hope this helped!
Scientists don't yet know exactly why osteoporosis occurs, but they do know that the normal bone remodeling process is disrupted. The strength of your bones depends on their size and density; bone density depends in part on the amount of calcium, phosphorus and other minerals bones contain. When your bones contain fewer minerals than normal, they're less strong and eventually lose their internal supporting structure. Other factors, such as hormone levels, also affect bone density. In women, when estrogen levels drop at menopause, bone loss increases dramatically. In men, low estrogen and testosterone levels can cause a loss of bone mass.
The factor is if you don't get enough calcium in your bones your bones will ossify and they will get weaker overtime.
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What disease causes the bones to become fragile?
The disease that causes bones to become weak is called "Osteoporosis".
What causes a human to shrink?
osteoporosis causes people to look as if they are shrinking
What causes bowed legs in the old?
osteoporosis.
How to narrow a research paper topic on aging and bone fracture and repair?
Focus maybe on one of the causes of osteoporosis or preventions of it. Fore example, 'Role of Calcium dietary intake in the prevention of Osteoporosis'
Can you have arthritis on your legs?
It can be a contributing factor. as can be osteoporosis.
What causes atmosphere to get hotter?
The sun is one factor that causes the atmosphere to get hotter.
Does a patient with osteoporosis never drink milk?
Not necessarily. Some do drink milk, but maybe not enough. But milk intake is not the only factor that contributes to osteoporosis.
A disease of the skeletal system that causes bones to become weak or to break easily is called?
Osteoporosis is the most common one, but there are others.
What causes rickets or osteoporosis in cattle?
Osteoporosis is caused when the animals are forced into a cramped position too long, have milk fever or for other miscellaneous reasons. Most factory farm cows have osteoporosis
What will happen if you click or crack your knuckles?
I was told it causes Osteoporosis and Arthritis.
What does osteoporosis effect?
Osteoporosis affects the density of the bones in the body. It causes the bones to become less dense and thus weaker and more prone to breaking.
What factor 7?
Factor VII is one of the proteinsthat causes blood to clot in the coagulation cascade.
