[Menopause and bone metabolism].
Hypoestrogenemia in climacterium causes high turnover bone metabolism, relative dominance of bone resorption, and osteopenia. Women have severe bone loss in climacterium. The objective for the prevention of osteoporosis in this period is to detect the high risk women of osteoporosis with bone mineral densitometry or bone metabolic markers and to start the preventive therapy, i. e. food, exercise and drug, as soon as possible. Therefore, menopause is very important period to prevent osteoporosis in future.
Kurabayashi
Takumi
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Perinatal Intensive Care center, Niigata University Hospital.
Kato
Nozomi
N
Nagata
Hiroshi
H
Matsushita
Hiroshi
H
Tanaka
Kenichi
K