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t is often seen by women that osteoporosis as a process of deterioration that nothing can stop, as a fatality linked to ageing.For indeed it was around 60 years after menopause, that the consequences of osteoporosis are emerging.
It is a loss of bone density, resulting in bone fragility. But contrary to what you might think, it is a disease, which is highly treatable, and which can stop the progression.
The fact that osteoporosis is not regarded as a disease is probably partly cultural - ah! grandmothers vaulted our campaigns ... -- And linked to the absence of severe clinical signs or painful in the early stages of the disease.
Women consider indeed, that osteoporosis is less serious than asthma, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol and breast cancer. But osteoporosis kills more than breast cancer, cervical and ovarian together ...
Moreover, according to a preconceived notion characteristic of a disease would occur at any time of life, while osteoporosis it is assimilated to the natural aging of the body. Wrong! Osteoporosis is a disease. A disease against which treatments exist.
For let us not forget that it has consequences often serious, sometimes tragic loss of size-settling by fractures of the vertebrae (from 3 cm), fractures of the hip - with a fatality rate of 25% a year -- and a significant loss of quality of life. A paradox, since today for seniors life begins at 60.
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