Understand osteopenia, including medications and lifestyle changes to treat and prevent this bone-thinning condition that sometimes develops into osteoporosis.

Another reported that bone-building medications are useful in women with thinning bones, but without an osteoporosis diagnosis. That pre-osteoporosis state is called osteopenia.

For the first four decades of life, men and women’s bones undergo a continual renewal, shedding collagen and then rebuilding through mineralization — a process that plateaus in midlife for ...

In 1990 the bone condition called osteopenia — slight thinning of the bones — didn't exist. Today all over America women are diagnosed with osteopenia and given medication. This is the story ...

Osteoporosis refers to “porous bone,” or a thinning of bone, where the quality and density of bone is decreased, so that it becomes weak and brittle. This puts a person at higher risk for ...

Q: I was recently diagnosed with osteopenia. My doctor advised strength training because it can help slow bone loss. How does it do that?A: Osteopenia is a thinning of the bones. It is often a ...

Q: My doctor just told me I have thin bones. She calls the problem “osteopenia.” Does this mean I’ll definitely develop osteoporosis? A: Osteopenia means “too little bone.” Osteoporosis ...

Q: I was recently diagnosed with osteopenia. My doctor advised strength training because it can help slow bone loss. How does it do that?A: Osteopenia is a thinning of the bones. It is often a ...

Thin and brittle bones are strongly linked to women’s heart disease risk, with thinning of the lower (lumbar) spine, top of the thigh bone (femoral neck), and hip especially predictive of a ...

Thinning/weakened bones, expressed as a low bone mineral density score at the lumbar spine, femoral neck, and hip, were independently associated with a heightened (16% to 38%) risk of heart attack ...

Q: I was recently diagnosed with osteopenia. My doctor advised strength training because it can help slow bone loss. How does it do that?A: Osteopenia is a thinning of the bones. It is often a ...