Osteoporosis is a treatable, often preventable disease.
Preventative and therapeutic treatment should be given before signs occur or as early in the disease as possible. In other words, it is a disease that gradually weakens the bones, causing them to become brittle and break easily. Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disorder characterized by a diffuse decrease in the amount of bone. The risk of a hip fracture is equal to a combined risk of uterine, breast and ovarian cancer. These cytokines cause calcium resorption from bones while osteoblasts make collagen to form osteoid, a precursor of bone, during remodeling.