Graves' disease and osteoporosis Another health problem you can have with untreated or poorly managed Graves' disease is osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition that causes you to have weak, brittle bones, making them more likely to break. Your bones become weak and brittle when they don’t h...
What is menopause?Menopause is a normal stage in a person's life when monthly periods stop. You are considered to be in menopause when you have not had a period for a full year after the age of 40. Menopause usually occurs between ages 47 to 53. Perimenopause is a stage before ...
C Arthritis, stroke, osteoporosis(骨关节炎), heart disease and dementia are what we’ve got to look forward to in old age. But conditions like these don’t have to be impossible to avoid, says New Zealand cook Robyn Martin. She firmly be
Osteopenia – or seeing it turn into osteoporosis for that matter – is not inevitable.Diet,exercise, and sometimesmedicationcan help keep your bones dense and strong for decades. Osteopenia is loss of bone density. If you have low bone density, your bones lack enough minerals, which makes the...
If you didn’t have a great peak bone mass to begin with, or you’re losing more bone than you can replace, you may wind up with weak bones and what’s known as senile osteoporosis, an age-related form of the bone disease. The other main type is postmenopausal osteoporosis, which ...
What is amenorrhea?Amenorrhea is the absence of menstruation (your monthly period). Primary amenorrhea means your period did not start by age 16. This is usually because of a lack of reproductive organs, such as a uterus. Breasts and other signs of puberty that usually start to develop by ...
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There is an ongoing shift in demographics such that older persons will outnumber young persons in the coming years, and with it age-associated tissue attri
However, due to increased life expectancy, a growing number of patients with CRGS is now reaching adult age. Therefore, it is important to raise awareness of syndrome-specific manifestations, medical needs, and diagnostic pitfalls of this vulnerable population. The most frequent physical complaints ...
The consensus guidelines also distinguish young women from ‘very young women’, with the latter group comprising women of age ≤35 at diagnosis [6]. Young women constitute a special subpopulation of breast cancer patients with distinct tumour pathology, prognosis, diagnostic evaluation, treatment ...