A 77-year-old woman from Plainview, N . Y ., wrote that after a recent bone density test, she was told she had osteopenia.
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This interval will be shortened to three years if the patient is already in the at-risk zone ( osteopenia ) or yearly if the patient has osteoporosis already.
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Moreno took the test more than a year ago expecting to " sail through, " only to discover she had developed a form of decreased bone mass called osteopenia.
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Once net bone loss starts in early adulthood, they are at risk of developing osteopenia even before midlife and osteoporosis thereafter, with a greatly increased chance of suffering a debilitating fracture.
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And premature infants risk osteopenia later because 80 percent of bone mineralization normally occurs in the last third of fetal life, when acquisition of bone minerals is much higher than after birth.
Several influences _ family history, ethnic background, age and sex _ are out of a person's control, but many things can be done to prevent osteopenia from developing into osteoporosis.
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Hesitant about taking " any kind of medication " and wondering if she really needed a bone-building drug like Fosamax, she went to the library and looked up osteopenia on the Internet.
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The most significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness are muscle atrophy ( see Reduced muscle mass, strength and performance in space for more information ) and deterioration of the skeleton, or spaceflight osteopenia.
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Osteopenia occurs more frequently in participants in non-weight-bearing sports like bicycling or swimming than in participants in weight-bearing sports like powerlifting and running, since bone-loading exercise tends to protect or possibly increase bone mineral density.
