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Reversing Osteopenia: The Definitive Guide to Recognizing and Treating Early Bone Loss in Women of All Ages - Softcover
About the Author
Harris H. McIlwain, M.D., a board-certified rheumatologist, is the founder of the Tampa Medical Group. He has served as chairman of the Florida Osteoporosis Board since its inception five years ago. Town and Country has twice named him one of the best doctors in
America.
Laura McIlwain Cruse, M.D., and Kimberly Lynn McIlwain, M.D., are rheumatologists and board-certified internists in Florida.
Debra Fulghum Bruce, Ph.D., has written more than 2,500 articles and sixty-five books on various health topics.
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From Reversing Osteopenia:
Osteopenia, a stage of bone density loss that is the forerunner to osteoporosis, is a silent but deadly condition that leads to painful and deforming fractures. It begins to rob bones during the most productive time of a woman's life-from the childbearing years to perimenopause. Treating osteopenia before full-blown osteoporosis and fractures set in is as effective as treating blood pressure before the stroke, or high cholesterol before the heart attack.
A few osteopenia facts:
A recent study has shown that almost 20 percent of college-age women already have osteopenia. Often, the women at highest risk are the ones who may appear healthiest-thin, athletic, fit.
More than 30 percent of perimenopausal women (late thirties to late forties), and more than half of women fifty years of age and older, suffer from low bone density.
More than 80 percent of those with osteopenia don't know it and are not treated-seven out of ten women over thirty have never even discussed the detection or prevention of low bone mass with their doctors.
The incidence of osteopenia is on the rise, thanks in part to the popularity of coffee and soda, the spread of eating disorders, and the lack of bone-strengthening exercises in many lifestyles.
Despite all this, osteopenia can easily be diagnosed and controlled.
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co., Inc.
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1422356507
- ISBN 13 9781422356500
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages218
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