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Diseases and health conditions that can cause bone loss
Certain diseases and health conditions can cause bone loss and increase the risk of osteoporosis. In some cases, when the disease is found and treated, bone health improves. With proper treatment, most people can live well with these diseases and health conditions. Living well also involves taking good care of your bones.
Vegetarian diet weakens bones
- By drizzit · New reply 7:04 am
- 6 replies
- Interesting research http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_ afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam ...
Do fat people have better bone health than thin people?
- By rmchavin · New reply June 20, 2009
- 12 replies
- The experts can't seem to agree with each other on why (or even whether) fat people have better bone health than thin people. Of those who believe that fat people do, indeed, have better bone health than ...
is anyone taking thyroid hormones for underactive throid
- By Lulubell · New reply May 9, 2009
- 18 replies
- i just decided to stop taking my nexium since i read that it increases your chances of a hip fracture. i have been taking synthroid for 25 yrs which i read also interfers with calcium absorption. i have ...
Osteoporosis May Raise Risk for Vertigo
- By KMFDallas · Posted March 28, 2009
- 0 replies
- Osteoporosis May Raise Risk for Vertigo Impaired calcium metabolism may be the link, researchers say HealthDay By Robert Preidt Monday, March 23, 2009 MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- People with ...
Scientific study links Coca-Cola and Pepsi to long term bone loss in women
- By rmchavin · Posted February 20, 2009
- 0 replies
- Please remember while reading the information at these websites that the benefit of drinking diet drinks may outweigh the risk of harm if indeed, they help women to lose weight and live longer by avoiding ...
Populations with a high vegetable consumption have the healthiest bones
- By rmchavin · New reply February 19, 2009
- 5 replies
- Populations that have a high consumption of fruits and vegetables and a low consumption of animal-source protein have the lowest rates of osteoporosis and hip fractures. Populations that have a low consumption ...
RISKS OF FORTEO VS. HRT
- By Gloucester · New reply January 21, 2009
- 36 replies
- Hi: I was a nonresponder to Fossamax; that is my bone density after 10 years on Fossamax was worse. Now I must decide what to do. I am 60 years old and have osteopenia and I want to stop the bone loss ...
Neutralizing Lupron - was it the Zometa .... or exercise?
- By otisbd · Posted December 25, 2008
- 0 replies
- I just re-tested my bone density on the very same machine after 12 months on Lupron - hormone deprivation therapy (HDT) for treatment of locally advanced prostate cancer. It showed a T-score improvement ...
nexium...calcium stealer
- By Lulubell · New reply December 23, 2008
- 8 replies
- i have osteo..60 yrs old ..been on nexium for the last 9 months and synthroid for the last 30 yrs..my concern is that i read about a increased hip fracture risk from nexium..(proton pump inhibitors)...it ...
inhaled steroids
- By LindaS · New reply December 19, 2008
- 10 replies
- Does anyone know of any specific studies on inhaled steroids and bone loss? I got osteoporosis during the pregnancy of my daughter. She is 18 and has asthma which doctors want to treat with inhaled steroids ...
Thyroidism?
- By ErinC · New reply December 15, 2008
- 50 replies
- In my physiology lecture this afternoon, my professor briefly touched on thyroid hormone's effects on bones. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism when I was 11 and have been on Synthroid .05mg for half ...
Double Whammy
- By Quarryman · New reply December 9, 2008
- 15 replies
- I have recently been diagnosed with osteoporosis and am taking calcium, vitamin D and Actonel. As if this wasn't enough, my dentists has recently informed me that some of my (very few) teeth securing ...
Osteo and Gut Serotonin
- By Eamenard · New reply December 6, 2008
- 12 replies
- As published in the online Cell Journal www.cell.com/abstract/50092-8674(08)0125 5-5, It is interesting but will have to see what others make of it. And if true, then what comes next. However we still ...
Young, brittle, and scared.
- By ErinC · New reply November 22, 2008
- 11 replies
- As covered in my profile, I received my diagnosis of osteoporosis when I was only 18 years old during my evaluation after admitting myself for anorexia. I'll be 22 this month, and even with calcium citrate ...
Cancer & Bone Loss
- By sdivas · New reply October 23, 2008
- 1 reply
- Please share your experience. Thank you ...
Osteoporosis and osteopeana - same body why variation?
- By Dandelion · New reply October 12, 2008
- 13 replies
- Does anyone have any idea how we can have osteoporosis in one part of our body and osteopena (sorry about spelling) in another i.e. why isn't the skeletal system affected in an uniform way? The scores ...
radioactive bone scan and elevated bone enzyme
- By Poet-Lady · New reply July 5, 2008
- 3 replies
- I had a bone density scan in May showing that I have osteopenia in both the hip and spine. I also had a blood test at the same time showing that Alkaline Phosphatase was elevated. This can indicate various ...
Osteoporosis, osteoartritis, HYPOparathyroid, Hypothyroid, Lupus, age 46.
- By mymichelina · New reply May 26, 2008
- 3 replies
- Hello, first post. Well above is a short list of my medical difficulties...I have been bedridden for 4 1/2 years due to severe pain and fatigue. Tests after tests...doctors to specialists all over. I ...
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