Question

Which of the following factors is associated with a reduced risk of osteoporosis?

A. Lower body weight

B. High intake of dietary sodium

C. High intake of dietary protein

D. Greatest body weight

Answer 1

Which of the following factors is associated with a reduced risk of osteoporosis?

Option (d) D. Greatest body weight

Osteoporosis is where expanded bone shortcoming builds the danger of a broken bone.[3] It is the most widely recognized explanation behind a broken bone among the elderly.[3] Bones that regularly break incorporate the vertebrae in the spine, the bones of the lower arm, and the hip.[8] Until a broken bone happens there are ordinarily no symptoms.[3] Bones may debilitate to such an extent, to the point that a break may happen with minor pressure or spontaneously.[3] Chronic agony and a diminished capacity to do typical exercises may happen following a broken bone.^[3]

Osteoporosis might be because of lower-than-typical most extreme bone mass and more prominent than-ordinary bone loss.[3] Bone misfortune increments after menopause because of lower levels of estrogen.[3] Osteoporosis may likewise happen because of various sicknesses or medications, including alcoholism, anorexia, hyperthyroidism, kidney disease, and surgical removal of the ovaries.^[3] Certain medications increase the rate of bone loss, including some antiseizure medications, chemotherapy, proton pump inhibitors, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and glucocorticosteroids.^[3] Smoking and too little exercise are also risk factors.^[3] Osteoporosis is defined as a bone density of 2.5 standard deviations below that of a young adult.^[4] This is typically measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.^[4]

Aversion of osteoporosis incorporates an appropriate eating regimen amid adolescence and endeavors to maintain a strategic distance from drugs that expansion the rate of bone loss.[3] Efforts to anticipate broken bones in those with osteoporosis incorporate a decent eating routine, work out, and fall prevention.^[3] Lifestyle changes such as stopping smoking and not drinking alcohol may help.^[3] Biphosphonate medications are useful in those with previous broken bones due to osteoporosis.^[5][6] In those with osteoporosis but no previous broken bones, they are less effective.^[5][6][9] A number of other medications may also be useful.^[3][10]

Osteoporosis turns out to be more typical with age.[3] About 15% of white individuals in their 50s and 70% of those more than 80 are affected.[7] It is more typical in ladies than men.[3] In the created world, contingent upon the strategy for finding, 2% to 8% of guys and 9% to 38% of females are affected.[11] Rates of ailment in the creating scene are unclear.[12] About 22 million ladies and 5.5 million men in the European Union had osteoporosis in 2010.[13] In the United States in 2010, around eight million ladies and one to two million men had osteoporosis.[11][14] White and Asian individuals are at more prominent risk.[3] "osteoporosis" is from the Greek expressions for "permeable bones".[15]