Keywords
Osteonecrosis
Bone Resorption
Bone Density
Postmenopause
Fractures Bone
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Abstract
Osteoporosis is a very prevalent disease in the present, it is defined as the decrease in bone mineral density, with a T score <-2.5 standard deviations measured in bone densitometry, in these patients there is a greater predisposition to fractures due to stress. There are many risk factors for the development of this pathology, with advanced age being one of the most important. It manifests mainly with fractures, that is why screening is so important, to identify all people who are at high risk of fractures and who will be beneficiaries of a treatment, among which we will have from changes in lifestyle such as regular exercise, mayor dietary intake of calcium, vitamin D, and pharmacological treatment, bisphosphonates being the first approved therapy
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