Thin people prone to Osteoporosis

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Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 16:36

Haakon E. Meyer at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the University of Oslo has concluded following an exhaustive survey research that thin men are more prone to osteoporosis than other men. The study has been published in The American Journal of Epidemiology.

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Methodology

In this study, nearly 1,476 men were studied for osteoporosis in Oslo 2000-01 and Tromso 2001. These people are the people who had also participated in the Oslo survey in 1972-73 and the Tromso survey in 1974-75.

Survey Result and Inference

After the study, it was found out that almost one-third of the people had osteoporosis among the thinnest quarter of men in the 1970s and among those who later lost weight. However, one-fourth of the population who had the highest weight in the 1970s and had not changed their weight did not have osteoporosis.

The survey showed that low weight among middle-aged men and subsequent weight loss led to increased risk of osteoporosis in old age.

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http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/17690

http://www.medindia.com/news/Thin-Men-More-Vulnerable-to-Osteoporosis-Fr...

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jahnavi

Mon, 09/29/2008 - 13:18

dear shubhranshu...I got the reason of weaker bones of thin people...But does that mean that slim girls would be rather more susceptible to osteoporosis as females already have increased incidence of weaker bones that men do have?

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Tue, 09/30/2008 - 17:44

Dera jahnavi.....Thin ladies often confront with problem of easy fracture...The problem is definitely elevated in them....They need to have an intake of calcium in regular diet or as suppliments...That's why a separate calcium sandoz is made available for females....Right?

jahnavi

Wed, 10/01/2008 - 06:53

Very correct shubhranshu...Thanks for the clarification....

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Sat, 04/28/2012 - 16:12

now a days many people purchase medicine on otc basis for there wellness..............do believe me in todays world no body can leave without medicine.....thats why revital by ranbaxy, nutricharge by ipca labs became brands.......similarly revital women and nutricharge w also came in market specially for womens....since there nutritional needs are different.........therefore brands such as womens horlicks, mama's best are available in the market to improve the situation for osteoporotic women................
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addi1091

Mon, 09/29/2008 - 13:32

You know that consequences of osteoporosis increases after menopause and even the lady is thin then what would be her condition at that time?

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guptashubhranshu

Tue, 09/30/2008 - 17:42

This problem does occur in thin females too....Practically speaking, I have many of my thin friends in females who had got fractures due to minor reasons...They need to have a regular or atleast a periodical intake of calcium tablets...

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eswar

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 00:17

Dear Gupta,
Being lean people, we should be careful abt the fact presented by U.. Right?
eswar :-)

Regards

ESWAR :-)

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guptashubhranshu

Thu, 10/02/2008 - 04:50

Yea, definitely lean people have a higher exposure to osteoporosis and they must be careful in all directions with their bones...

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Sho

Sat, 04/28/2012 - 16:07

it is better to take 60000 international units of cholecalciferole granules weekly for thin/osteoporotic mens till the vit.D3 levels get improved then he should continue with vit.D3 tablets. this will surely help him to gain necessary bone health as well as to improve osteoporotic situation................so i think this is not a very gr8 research done by oslo and tromso.
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