Preparations of osteoporosis and treat and mutilated

Popular drugs against osteoporosis, "long-term use can make weak limbs," as scientists say. It's about bisphosphonates, which for a short time to help the bones, but in the long term - destroy their structure.

If these medicines are used for a long time (this is usually reported in patients with osteoporosis ), By the same token, you can cause serious health damage. After four or more years after the start of the regular reception bisphosphonates   substantially grows the risk of atypical fractures.

In Russia osteoporosis   It affects about 6.7 million people, many of whom are taking bisphosphonates . The disease is sometimes called the "silent epidemic" because it is a long time does not manifest itself in the body as long as it does not break any bones. Osteoporosis is particularly active attacks in postmenopausal women - affected by it about 20% of the fair sex in the age from 60 to 69.

Bisphosphonates also used by doctors to help cancer patients who have had a loss of bone density as a result of disease or therapy. Drugs slow rate of bone demineralization, which allows them to retain a higher density.

However, scientists from the United States found that bisphosphonates   simultaneously disrupt the crystalline structure of bone and mineral. This, in turn, eventually weakens them and leads to fractures. Thus, drugs on the one hand strengthen bones and, on the other - make them weaker.

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