PSYCH-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Aspirin, Bone Density, Osteoporosis
8 Dec 2020
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Osteoarthritis: almost all old suffer with this at one point in life. Long term consequences of early join injury/damage. Joints that usually have a lot of use. Material in joints is foreign, targets cells in joints taking apart bone itself. Joints so deformed, don"t work at all. Unknown, viral exposure during prenatal development that changes immune system function. As progresses add in other drugs as well. Treat inflammation, add drugs with more side effects. Everyone has some, bone density loss at one point becomes abnormal. More common women, women diagnosed earlier than men. Most common cause of broken bones in older adults. Racial genetic history (slender/thin bones happens earlier) Heavily built (african) lower rates, can lose some and be okay. Sex (estrogen levels that change after menopause) lack production changes how bone replaced and built up. Calcium and vitamin d (typically from food and sunlight) Smoking harmful: slow down bone replacement process.
