{"id":20463,"date":"2019-10-18T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=20463"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:13:29","slug":"world-osteoporosis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/world-osteoporosis-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Osteoporosis Day: October 20, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #5f80a0;\">World Osteoporosis Day:\u00a0The Effects of Osteoporosis on the Body<\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#5f80a0;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>World Osteoporosis Day<\/strong> takes place on the 20th of October and is an opportunity to raise <strong>awareness and promote campaigns<\/strong> about this issue. In 2015, <strong>3.8 million<\/strong> people were living with this disease in France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Osteoporosis is a condition that affects negatively the <strong>bones<\/strong>. The bone is a living tissue, and it is continuously being replaced for new tissue. When people suffer from this disease, the development of new bone tissue does not cope with the bone\u2019s loss. The bone <strong>becomes weaker<\/strong> due to larger spaces. People who have osteoporosis have a higher risk of breaking a bone, especially in the hips, spine, wrists and ribs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Osteoporosis can affect everyone but is more likely to occur for <strong>older people<\/strong>. <strong>Women <\/strong>also have a <strong>higher chance<\/strong> of suffering from it. Not only do they have smaller structure and bones but during <strong>menopause<\/strong>, women have a weaker bone structure, due to the decrease of oestrogen hormones which help protect bones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Osteoporosis is known for being a <strong>\u201csilent disease\u201d<\/strong>, for the simple reason that people may not suffer from any symptoms and only discover they have it because of a <strong>bone fracture<\/strong>. The most common symptoms are easy bone-breaking, weight loss, back pain and a hunched posture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some risk factors cannot be controlled, but fortunately, there are some\u00a0<strong>behaviours\u00a0<\/strong>we can adopt to help prevent this disease, such as: stopping smoking, drinking alcohol with moderation, exercising, taking the recommended vitamin D and calcium per day.\u00a0There is <strong>no cure<\/strong> for the disease however, the treatment includes taking medications that improve the building of bone mass or medication that avoids bone loss. The treatment\u2019s main goal is to <strong>reduce fractures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of scientists from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Los Angeles did a <strong>study in 2019,<\/strong> to find out more about oestrogen in the brain. The study consisted in blocking oestrogen effects in animals\u2019 hypothalamus. As a result, they got less active and gained weight: scientists discovered that it was due to an increase in the animals\u2019 bone density. They also noted that higher bone density persisted during the animal\u2019s lifetime.\u00a0Even if the study was only conducted in mice, these are fantastic news, that can <strong>improve osteoporosis\u2019 treatment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many things we can do to <strong>help and raise awareness<\/strong> for this issue, just like participating in the events that will take place on the world\u2019s osteoporosis day; volunteer on the International Osteoporosis Foundation; and if you suffer from osteoporosis, share your story, so you can help other people.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">References:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">What Do You Want to Know About Osteoporosis?,\u00a0August 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/osteoporosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthline<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Osteoporosis,\u00a0 June 2019,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/osteoporosis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20351968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MayoClinic<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Osteoporosis breakthrough: Bone mass increased by 800 percent,\u00a0January 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/324162.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MedicalNewsToday<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}