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Osteoporosis- A Myth or Reality

Article Abstract by: Shahu     

Original Author: Dr.Shah Alam Khan
The last couple of decades has shown a tremendous interest and research in osteoporosis, a condition defined as reduction
of bone mass per unit mass. I feel its high time we need to answer the question, Is Osteoporosis a Real threat to our female and geriatric population or is this a market governed drive aimed at making a benign physiological process into a nefarious dreaded disease process. Osteoporosis is as old as human population. If it was to account for a high morbidity in the society, we would have a morbid exsistence. I strongly feel that osteoporosis is not as malignant as it has been made to appear. Every back pain, leg pain or fracture is now attributed to osteoporosis. Osteporosis is not a disease instead a physiological process induced by age. As soon as your hair turn grey, your eye lens becomes muddy, you start to loose bone a little more quickly than your younger counterparts.  
Published: June 16, 2007
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