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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Bone Diseases, Metabolic > Osteoporosis
Musculoskeletal Diseases > Bone Diseases > Bone Diseases, Metabolic > Osteoporosis

Preferred term

Osteoporosis  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Osteoporoses, Senile
  • Osteoporosis, Age Related
  • Osteoporosis, Age-Related
  • Osteoporosis, Post Traumatic
  • Osteoporosis, Post-Traumatic
  • Osteoporosis, Senile
  • Post-Traumatic Osteoporoses
  • Post-Traumatic Osteoporosis
  • Senile Osteoporoses

Note

  • related to aging: note X refs; age-related osteoporosis in men goes here; age-related osteoporosis in women is probably OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL

Scope note

  • Reduction of bone mass without alteration in the composition of bone, leading to fractures. Primary osteoporosis can be of two major types: postmenopausal osteoporosis (OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL) and age-related or senile osteoporosis.

In other languages

  • osteoporoosi

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön luukato
  • osteoporosis
  • osteoporosis non specificata
  • Benskörhet

    Swedish

  • Osteoporos
  • Post-traumatisk osteoporos
  • Senil osteoporos
  • Åldersrelaterad osteoporos

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010024

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