Osteoporosis a disease for all; in Lebanon.
Osteoporosis is the most important metabolic disease leading to fracture and high mortality morbidity rates. With the increase of aging population, mainly in the developing work, it is estimated that the incidence of fracture will rise too. Osteoporosis known in the past to be a woman disease, it is now accepted that it affects man too. The risk factors for osteoporosis are known now, but one vertebral fracture, leading to more vertebral fractures and increasing the risk of hip fracture, stands by itself as an independent risk factor for osteoporosis even if BMD is normal or osteopenic. Vertebral fracture is associated with high mortality rate. At the same time it is work noting that osteoporosis in man is different than in women and finally we have now the means to diagnose correctly the disease, evaluate the fracture risk, treat and monitor the treatment. But incidence, fracture rate, peak bone mass in Lebanon are different than the European or North American one.
Ghassan
Maalouf
M
Saint George Hospital-Balamand University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Alexandre
Nehme
N
Joseph
Wehbe
W
Fadi
Haddad
H
Georges
Farah
F
Joseph
Habanbo
H
Marie Hélène
Gannagé Yared
GY
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D015519:Bone Density; D002118:Calcium / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004164:Diphosphonates / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007861:Lebanon / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D020845:Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000627:therapeutic use
D004164:Diphosphonates; D020845:Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators; D014807:Vitamin D; D002118:Calcium