Medical Terminology
This is the medical term for a broken bone.
What is a fracture?
This gender is more prone to osteoporosis due to body composition and hormonal changes.
Who are women?
This food group is abundant in both calcium and vitamin D, and contains food like cheese and yogurt.
What is dairy?
This supplement helps to build bone mass.
What is calcium?
Osteoporosis most commonly causes fractures in these three places.
What is the wrist, pelvis, and vertebrae?
This word root means bone
What is Oste/o?
How many Americans are diagnosed with osteoporosis?
54 million people
This type of vegetables, including spinach and kale, are rich in calcium.
What are leafy greens?
Vitamin D can be taken in order to help with this.
What is calcium absorption?
What kind of exercises can help treat osteoporosis?
What are Weightbearing Exercises?
This suffix means passage.
What is -porosis?
Osteoporosis is more likely to affect people this age or older.
What is 50 years old?
What is sodium?
This substance can contribute to bone thinning and the reduction of calcium absorption.
What is alcohol?
This is known as the stage of bone density loss that occurs before osteoporosis.
What is osteopenia?
This suffix means to lack or have a deficiency of.
What is -penia?
Your risk of osteoporosis may be increased if you have a family history of it, making it this kind of disease.
What is hereditary?
Fatty fishes contain high levels of this vitamin, which helps with calcium absorption.
What is vitamin D?
What is smoking?
Osteoporosis reduces these two factors of bone structure.
What is density and thickness?
This is the medical term for shortness of breath (one of the symptoms of osteoporosis).
What is dyspnea?
These two ethnicities are more at risk for osteoporosis.
What are Caucasians and Asians?
This natural stimulant can increase the rate of calcium expulsion from the body when consumed in excessive amounts.
What is caffeine?
This medication is the most commonly prescribed for osteoporosis and works to slow bone resorption.
What are bisphosphonates?
What is the best way to diagnose osteoporosis?
What is a Bone Mineral Density Test?