Showing posts with label diseaes. Show all posts
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Friday, November 4, 2011

POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS

POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS (PRIMARY TYPE 1 OSTEOPOROSIS)

(ARTICLE BY: Hina Fatima, 3rd Year MBBS, Rawalpindi Medical College)

The term osteoporosis as defined by The National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference reveals “a disease of increased skeletal fragility accompanied by a low bone mineral density (a T score for bone mineral density lower than 2.5) and microarchitectural deterioration”.
Postmenopausal osteoporosis,however strongly refers to

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