Osteoporosis Medication Not Effective for Menopause Women

Women entering the menopausal period (berhentinya sikulus menstruasi) mengonsumsi many osteoporosis medication to keep tulangnya density. But in fact the medicine osteoporosis during menopause do not provide effective results.

Researchers from the bone Juliet Compston of Cambridge University to monitor the bone density of women, the menopause is not much change, even if they are osteoporosis drug mengonsumsi (bisfosfonat). Osteoporosis is the experienced older women tulangnya caused the density is reduced because the decreasing estrogen level after menopause. Bone mineral density is low is an important risk factor for bone pengeroposan.

How dilansir Medical News Today, Sabtu (18/7/2009), the leader, so that the osteoporosis drug mengonsumsi regularly to maintain bone density has a lot of people spend the money, if the result is not significant.

Researchers in Australia and the United States to assess the need to monitor the use of osteoporosis drugs is to find out barapa big alendronate effects of drugs (which is used to bisfosfat) in different individuals.

The researchers analyzed the data from the Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT), which was later compared with the effects of alendronate and placebo in more than 6000 women with menopausal bone density is low. Dipaha and spine bone density was at the beginning, and then repeated in the first, second and third. After 3 years of therapy, almost all (97.5%) women with alendronate showed increased bone density is small. Moreover, the effect of this treatment is not a significant inter-individual.

Monitor bone density in women with menopause is the first year after starting treatment with bisfosfat is not too important and potentially error. "These cases reinforce the monitoring of bone density during treatment a few years," says Compston. The best way to maintain bone density is exercising regularly and eating patterns, and consume foods that naturally contain calcium. Not only on medication for osteoporosis results not effective.

Osteoporosis Medication Not Effective for Menopause Women