Muscle strength and skeletal competence: implications for early prophylaxis.
Muscle strength and skeletal competence: implications for early prophylaxis.
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肌肉力量和骨骼能力:对早期预防的影响。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02556359
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发表时间:
1988
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Sandler,RB
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作者:
Sandler,RB
The erosion of the bony skeleton, which afflicts people worldwide, requires many decades of bone loss before it manifests as the skeletal fragility of osteoporotic fractures. Because of the multi-decade evolvement of osteoporosis, specific strategies, differentially adapted to the issues of the periods under consideration, can be selectively applied to the control of the condition. The treatment of symptomatic osteoporosis, encountered primarily in the elderly, should preferably differ from the treatment designed to stem the perimenopausal acceleration of bone loss, and both should differ from strategies designed to support the optimal maturation and subsequent preservation of the skeletal mass, as a safeguard against the inevitable decrements of old age.No agent or combination of agents has yet emerged that will replete the eroded bone mass of the osteoporotic skeleton [1]. Thus, the aim of the therapeutic intervention in the clinically overt primary osteoporosis of late adulthood and old age is currently limited to the alleviation of discomfort and the containment of further skeletal deterioration. On the other hand, during the perimenopausal period the therapeutic issues revolve around the accelerated rate of bone loss, brought about by the withdrawal of ovarian hormones from the regulatory systems of the organism. Estrogen replacement became, therefore, the target of treatment for this period of the life cycle. Though effective in counteracting the accelerated postmenopausal bone loss, estrogen treatment is not risk free: estrogen as an endogenous constituent has receptors in many tissues, which by interacting with the exogenously administered hormones may generate undesirable side effects. The currently prevalent view, therefore, is that estrogen treatment should be limited to women who are at an increased risk of fractures [1] on account of family history, predisposing medical problems, and/or unfavorable lifestyle elements.