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ttention gentlemen, if you smoke at least a dozen cigarettes a day, you are exposed to a real risk of osteoporosis!Professor Pierre Delmas and his team, Edouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon, followed a cohort of 719 men from 51 to 85 years.
This group was composed of smokers "moderate" - 10 cigarettes per day - former smokers and nonsmokers.
The result, smokers or former smokers who weigh less than 75 kg really constitute a population at risk of osteoporosis. Their bone mineral density (BMD) decreases significantly, which may lead to settlement fractures of the spine.
Among these men, the authors have identified two characteristics associated with tobacco, could explain the loss of bone substance. They are excessively high blood levels of parathyroid hormone responsible for regulating the level of calcium in the blood.
And they also suffer from a deficiency of vitamin D, whose major role is precisely to determine calcium on bone…
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