[Osteopenia and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women in Panama].
We present the results of densitometry studies performed on 1031 females, from September 1996 to September 1997. The studies were subsidized by the Foundation for Metabolic and Bone Diseases and the pharmaceutical institutions. The results were classified according to the WHO recommendations, taking in consideration the age of the patients, in normal, with osteopenia and with osteoporosis. 821 (79.63%) of the patients suffered from osteopenia or osteoporosis and 807 (78.2%) were postmenopause: only 14% of them were normal and 86% with osteoporosis or osteopenia.
Chue de Coto
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Centro de Estudios Metabólicos, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Panamá.
D015502:Absorptiometry, Photon; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015519:Bone Density / Q000502:physiology; D001851:Bone Diseases, Metabolic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology*; D010176:Panama / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies