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Osteoporosis is characterised by loss of bone mass with age and many other risk factors, making the bones behave like a sponge, leading to fractures in the bones of hip joint, wrist joint and spinal vertebra after a trivial fall, like slipping in the bathroom. Screening for osteoporosis is very important in people at risk for the same including elderly people, postmenopausal women, patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases like Rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, Psoriatic arthritis and Ankylosing spondylitis, hyperthyroidism, smoking and presence of family history of similar fractures in parents. If you have the above risk factors, kindly screen yourself for Osteoporosis from your Rheumatologist soon...

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