title: The effect of obesity on postmenopausal bone loss and the risk of osteoporosis.
abstract: There are many data indicating that osteoporotic fractures, and particularly hip fractures, are less frequent in obese subjects. Overweight and obese women have a higher bone mass after menopause than women of the same age who are not overweight, and thus in all probability have a slower bone loss. This protective effect appears to be related both to mechanical factors and to estrogen synthesis in adipose tissue.
authors.affiliation: Endocrinology Department, C.H.U. Purpan, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ribot
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Trémollières
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pouillès
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015992:Body Mass Index; D015519:Bone Density / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012307:Risk Factors