1. What is it?

Osteoporosis is a disease that involves a progressive decrease in bone mass. This causes the decrease bone strength and can fly apart by small traumas and even spontaneously. It is a disease that is generated slowly and can develop without symptoms until you are microfractures producing disability, pain and fractures.

2. Who gets this disease?

80% of people with this disease are women, it is sometimes affects more women than men. It is estimated that one in three postmenopausal women suffer osteoporosis.

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is that which occurs in the years following the termination of rule in women. During the ten years following menopause, women lose 50% of their bone mass.

This is due to termination of circulating estrogen action that protected the bone loss masa. An estimated that approximately 200 million women suffer from osteoporosis in the world.

In Europe and the United States an estimated one-third of women over age 50 will suffer an osteoporosis-related fracture at some point in their lives.

Increased life expectancy grows the number of women reach menopause, with the consequent increase of which suffer from osteoporosis.

Since menopause contributes to the loss of calcium in bone, is critical to reach this age with a strong, well-mineralized bone.