Osteoporosis: Invasion of bone sappers
Hi all, this is something good to share with all of you, this article from reader digest. It is natural for your bones to weaken as you age. But some people, particularly women, lose so much bone matter that their skeletons become riddled with weak spots. Osteoporosis can cause debilitating hip, spine, and forearm fractures. Estimated show that by 2050, about 50 % of all asteoporotic hip fractures in the world will occur in Asia. In Singapore for instance, the incidences of hip fracture in 1998 have gone up five times in women and 1.5 times in men compared to those observed in the 1960s. Most people in the region are now living longer-thanks to the advancement of medical science. This simply means they are also getting older. "The vast majority of eldery people will have one or more osteoporotic spine fractures, "says Prof Tan Seang Beng, Senior Consultanct Orthopaedic Surgeon and Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Singapore General Hospital. Asian are...