Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis

1) The common and scientific name of the disease. 2) What causes it? How is it transmitted? 3) What are the symptoms? How long do they last? Is it deadly? 4) Can it be cured? If so, how? If not, is there any way that we can at least treat it? Note: A properly done page must have sources referenced at the bottom.



__What is Osteoporosis?__

Osteoporosis is a extremely bad disease of the bones which leads to an extremely higher risk of fracture. What osteoporosis does is reduce the bone mineral density (BMD) of the infected bones so that the amount of varied minerals in the bones are altered, ultimately causing the bones to become weak.

1.) __The common and scientific name of the disease.__

Common name: Bone disease

Scientific name: Osteoporosis

2.) __What causes it? How is it transmitted?__

Cause of osteoporosis in women: Low estrogen

Cause of osteoporosis in men: Low testosterone

How is it transmitted: Osteoporosis is not transmitted as it is a disease that surface from within any given person if they do not take enough calcium in their daly diet.

3.) __What are the symptoms? How long do they last? Is it deadly?__

what are the symptoms: Well, if you do not take enough calcium in you daily diet, you bones will become weak and brittle. The result of this will be that ur bones will be able to fracture and break are take on weird shapes if you keep them in a certain position.

How long do they last: it all depends on how much calcium you take after you know you have osteoporosis. If you take a steady amount of quite a lot of calcium, if could be gone within a week. If not, if could never go.

Is it deadly: Osteoporosis mostly affects woman more than men, but in both cases they are still extremely deadly. With this disease. you bones can break no matter where they are located in you body.

4.) __Can it be cured? If so, how? If not, is there any way we can at least treat it?__

No it cannot, it can only be subdued for a little while or a few years at the most.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You can treat Osteoporosis by taking in a lot of calcium in your diet. This will only subdue the affects of it.

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