Osteoporosis

Overview of osteoporosis (Osteoporosis) the microscopic structure of bone damage Bone mineral content and bone matrix, and so on in proportion to the steady decline in bone thinning, trabecular bone volume reduction brittle bones and increase the risk of fracture increased as a systemic disorder of bone metabolism diseases. Osteoporosis generally fall into two major categories, namely primary osteoporosis and secondary osteoporosis. Primary osteoporosis including idiopathic osteoporosis. This chapter focuses discussion of degenerative osteoporosis. Degenerative osteoporosis can be divided into postmenopausal osteoporosis (also known as type I primary osteoporosis) and senile osteoporosis Osteoporosis (also known as type II primary osteoporosis). With the life expectancy of the population will continue to grow and the elderly population growing, As a degenerative one of the important disease of osteoporosis and fractures caused by has become a serious social problem and much older scholars concern. My about patients with osteoporosis 6000 -8000 10000. Shanghai survey data show that the elderly osteoporosis prevalence rate for males 60.72%, 90.47% for females.