Gender inequalities in the treatment of osteoporosis

Evaluation of Calcium Homeostasis in Patients Treated in Ternopil University Hospital for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

“…apart of inducing bone remodeling, exercising stimulates growth hormone release, that is turn increases BMD. as confirmed by previous research, 10 minutes of high intensity physical activity causes a robust increase of growth hormone in young males [12].…”

Application of artificial neural network in the diagnostic system of osteoporosis

“…Finally, we need to get the average from each item. We collect serum specimens of patients at the same time and detect six clinical parameters as follows: age [32], gender [33], bone mineral density (BMD), alkaline phosphatase, blood calcium and blood phosphorus. …”

Geriatric falls and risk factors

“…Among the potential causes, the greater rates of smoking and alcohol abuse in men, along with commoner causes of secondary osteoporosis (e.g., glucocorticoid excess and hypogonadism) can be mentioned [65,66]. As was highlighted earlier, the mortality rates are also nearly double in men than in women after sustaining a hip fracture [18,23,24,[29][30][31][32]. Thus guidelines and policies on fall prevention need to be designed on gender perspective, particularly in vulnerable nursing home populations.…”

“…Although falls and fractures are more common among older women than men, in the case of hip fracture the mortality rate is almost double in males than in females: 26.8-32.5% versus 17.0-21.9% [18,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. There are approximately 100,000 osteoporotic bone fractures each year in Hungary, and the treatment costs are estimated to be more than 20 billion HUF (Hungarian Forints, about 64.5 million EUR) for the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) in 2011.…”

“…Based on international literature data, 25% of people with hip fracture die within 1 year, and the 5-year survival is only 41%, with an estimated 740,000 deaths worldwide [25,69]. One year after hip fracture the mortality rate is almost double in men than in women: 26.8-32.5% versus 17-21.9% [18,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. The rate of frailty and co-morbidities in men contribute to higher mortality rates and explains the high rate of long-term care and hospitalisation, as well as greater rates of smoking and alcohol abuse among men can worsen the outcome [65,66].…”