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Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition
Osteoporosis is called the ‘silent disease’ because, although it does not give significant symptoms when it is not complicated, can cause fragility fractures, with serious consequences and death. Furthermore, the consequences of osteoporosis have been calculated to weigh heavily on the costs of heal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7924179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33672656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22042105 |
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author | Rinonapoli, Giuseppe Ruggiero, Carmelinda Meccariello, Luigi Bisaccia, Michele Ceccarini, Paolo Caraffa, Auro |
author_facet | Rinonapoli, Giuseppe Ruggiero, Carmelinda Meccariello, Luigi Bisaccia, Michele Ceccarini, Paolo Caraffa, Auro |
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description | Osteoporosis is called the ‘silent disease’ because, although it does not give significant symptoms when it is not complicated, can cause fragility fractures, with serious consequences and death. Furthermore, the consequences of osteoporosis have been calculated to weigh heavily on the costs of health systems in all the countries. Osteoporosis is considered a female disease. Actually, the hormonal changes that occur after menopause certainly determine a significant increase in osteoporosis and the risk of fractures in women. However, while there is no doubt that women are more exposed to osteoporosis and fragility fractures, the literature clearly indicates that physicians tend to underestimate the osteoporosis in men. The review of the literature done by the authors shows that osteoporosis and fragility fractures have a high incidence also in men; and, furthermore, the risk of fatal complications in hip fractured men is higher than that for women. The authors report the evidence of the literature on male osteoporosis, dwelling on epidemiology, causes of osteoporosis in men, diagnosis, and treatment. The analysis of the literature shows that male osteoporosis is underscreened, underdiagnosed, and undertreated, both in primary and secondary prevention of fragility fractures. |
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spelling | pubmed-79241792021-03-03 Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition Rinonapoli, Giuseppe Ruggiero, Carmelinda Meccariello, Luigi Bisaccia, Michele Ceccarini, Paolo Caraffa, Auro Int J Mol Sci Review Osteoporosis is called the ‘silent disease’ because, although it does not give significant symptoms when it is not complicated, can cause fragility fractures, with serious consequences and death. Furthermore, the consequences of osteoporosis have been calculated to weigh heavily on the costs of health systems in all the countries. Osteoporosis is considered a female disease. Actually, the hormonal changes that occur after menopause certainly determine a significant increase in osteoporosis and the risk of fractures in women. However, while there is no doubt that women are more exposed to osteoporosis and fragility fractures, the literature clearly indicates that physicians tend to underestimate the osteoporosis in men. The review of the literature done by the authors shows that osteoporosis and fragility fractures have a high incidence also in men; and, furthermore, the risk of fatal complications in hip fractured men is higher than that for women. The authors report the evidence of the literature on male osteoporosis, dwelling on epidemiology, causes of osteoporosis in men, diagnosis, and treatment. The analysis of the literature shows that male osteoporosis is underscreened, underdiagnosed, and undertreated, both in primary and secondary prevention of fragility fractures. MDPI 2021-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7924179/ /pubmed/33672656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22042105 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Rinonapoli, Giuseppe Ruggiero, Carmelinda Meccariello, Luigi Bisaccia, Michele Ceccarini, Paolo Caraffa, Auro Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition |
title | Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition |
title_full | Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition |
title_fullStr | Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition |
title_full_unstemmed | Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition |
title_short | Osteoporosis in Men: A Review of an Underestimated Bone Condition |
title_sort | osteoporosis in men: a review of an underestimated bone condition |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7924179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33672656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22042105 |
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