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骨密度（bone density） Osteoporosis - a quiet epidemic Osteoporosis is a worldwide and more and more important health problem. At present, about 200 million people suffer from osteoporosis in the world, and the incidence of osteoporosis has become the seventh place of common diseases and frequently occurring diseases. According to statistics, at present, Chinas population above 40 year old osteoporosis prevalence rate of 16.1%, the population over the age of 60 to 22.6%, 80 people over the age of 50% with the disease; osteoporosis increased with age increasing rise, therefore, the correct understanding, early prevention is particularly important, with the aging of the population is more and more obvious, as in elderly multiple degenerative disease, osteoporosis and its complications, has become a social health problem has attracted the attention of scholars and geriatrics, aroused great attention of governments. what is Osteoporosis? Osteoporosis is a systemic disease characterized by reduced bone mass, minimal structural destruction of bone, increased fragility of bone, and increased risk of fracture. What types of osteoporosis do you have? Osteoporosis can be divided into two broad categories: The first type is primary osteoporosis It is a physiological degenerative disease that is inevitable with the increase of age. Primary osteoporosis can be divided into: The postmenopausal osteoporosis The senile osteoporosis The second type is secondary osteoporosis It is caused by some other factors such as disease or medicine. Why? Osteoporosis? Normally, bone metabolism is the formation of new bone through osteoblasts, which are broken down and absorbed by old bones. Bone formation and absorption are dynamically balanced. In childhood and adolescence, bone formation than bone resorption; in about 30 years, reach peak bone mass; after that, with the increase of age, bone formation than bone, the bone density is more and more low, when the bone density is lower than a certain le