title: [Postmenopausal osteoporosis and blood stasis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether blood stasis is one of the main causes in the pathogenesis of postmenopausal osteoporosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical manifestation of blood stasis syndrome were comprehensively scored in sixty postmenopausal osteoporosis patients, their vascular endothelial function and platelet activating capacity were also detected, and compared with those in 30 healthy women as control.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The molecular indexes as vascular endothelial function and platelet activating capacity, as well as comprehensive scores of clinical manifestation of blood stasis syndrome in postmenopausal osteoporosis patients were significantly different to those of healthy women (P < 0.05, P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is objective molecular pathologic change of blood stasis syndrome in postmenopausal osteoporosis. Blood stasis plays an important role in pathogenesis of postmenopausal osteoporosis.
authors.affiliation: Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fujian. suichengzhi@163.net
authors.forename: Cheng-zhi
authors.initials: CZ
authors.lastname: Sui
authors.forename: Zhi-kun
authors.initials: ZK
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Shao-mei
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001809:Blood Viscosity; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D018056:Hemorheology; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D015663:Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal / Q000097:blood* / Q000209:etiology*; D015539:Platelet Activation / Q000502:physiology