W
ith a score of other cities, Belfort just be an awareness campaign about the dangers of osteoporosis risk.According to Professor Jean-Pierre Meunier, "osteoporosis will be in the coming years a major public health problem." And to say that in 2050, life expectancy for women is expected to exceed 90 years but at the same time some 150 000 of the upper end of the femur fractures should occur.
"This will be a tripling compared to the current situation if nothing is done to reverse this epidemic." Hence the campaign this year in 23 French cities including Belfort to make women aware of this danger.
Osteoporosis Symtoms
How to recognize osteoporosis symptoms ? Simply by controlling the size. "Too often ignored by patients but also by their doctor, 50 years after the loss of size should not simply be regarded as inevitable age-related" said officials of the association Fracto-South advocates for osteoporosis prevention fractures.
The systematic control once a year may give clues about the presence or absence of osteoporosis risk and to seek an osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.
"A few centimeters below may be for example a sign of vertebral fractures gone unnoticed." While a more thorough examination with an X-ray of the spine and a bone mineral density "can confirm or not the disease.
The back pain is now a widespread phenomenon too for not taking it seriously and eg settlement of vertebrae. The vertebral fractures are estimated at over 150 000 per year.
Worse, they would be diagnosed in only two cases out of three but fortunately they did not disclose often painful. It remains a vertebral fracture existing multiplied by five the osteoporosis risk of a new fracture.
A Belfort, statistics made on the sidelines of this action are quite alarming as on the sample of monitored women whose average age is 60 years, 47% of them have lost 3 cm or more and 88% of people they do not have fractures or weaker vertebrae.
Hence the ongoing campaign to raise awareness about the risks and consequences of osteoporosis, supported by a number of laboratories.
