Women with osteoporosis are more dangerous than cancer

50-year-old Ms. Sun recently felt there was something wrong, flustered, insomnia, sweating and more and more, head seems not as before. This year, because of fracture lived two homes, the ballast is in the hospital. The doctor said that she was due to menopause, estrogen deficiency due to osteoporosis.

Doctor of:

Beijing maternity hospital Po-British think Dean: ovarian function decline is the result of estrogen and progesterone in women appears to lack access to the direct cause of menopause. Menopause is no longer mere physiological changes, but rather an endocrine pathology. For 45-60 years old, 85% of women in menopause appear hot flashes, sweating, flustered, insomnia, dizziness, emotional instability, and other symptoms. Short for 1 to 5 years, 30% of women may last for 5 years. These symptoms may be on women's psychology and life have a serious impact.

Background:

According to statistics, nearly 100 million in middle-aged women, and about 65 million elderly women. The average life expectancy of women has more than 75 years, the average age for menopause is 49 years old. In other words, the female life 1/3 was spent after menopause.

Estrogen deficiency affects not only the lives of women, could lead to two because of the estrogen deficiency caused by diseases: cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. Osteoporosis in women during their lifetime risk of hip fracture occurred than their suffering from breast cancer, cervical cancer, uterine and ovarian cancer risk. According to surveys, over 60 years of female osteoporosis rates as high as 40%, and increased with age, the proportion is rising. Crowds in osteoporosis, 30% of women will suffer the pain of fracture. These fractures, including spine and vertebrae, forearm bone fractures and femoral neck fractures. 60 years of women in the 25% vertebral compression fractures may occur.

Cause osteoporosis due to estrogen reduce the loss of calcium. Women in China with a relatively small amount of physical activity, food intake and absorption in calcium levels are low. Postmenopausal 3 to 5 years, the average annual loss 2.5% calcium, causing diseases.

For women, the calcium supplement is required, but is not to say that every woman a day to eat a calcium tablets. Through the analysis of the personal information of patients, symptoms and physical examination and laboratory findings in patients with symptoms of menopause, osteoporosis, cardiovascular function, dozens of related diseases diagnosis on the basis of a comprehensive treatment plan, including psychological, lifestyle, diet, quantitative exercise, vitamins and minerals added, drug treatment, as well as quantitative, made entirely of individualized and complementary treatment programmes, in order to achieve the best results.

(Editors: quadrileaflet 1m1m)