Men get osteoporosis too

For years scientists branded osteoporosis and resulting hip fractures as a disease suffered exclusively by post-menopausal women. And men didn’t object to this exclusion.

But fact differs from fiction: one third of all fractured hips and vertebrae due to osteoporosis occurs in men.

Lifestyle factors and prevention

Several factors are associated with age-related osteoporosis in men:

a genetic predisposition (from the mother’s genes)

lowered levels of androgen/testosterone usually in tandem with small testes

insufficient physical activity

smoking

drinking

low calcium intake

deficient absorption of calcium

decreased levels of Vitamin D

Read everything you need to know about preventing and managing osteoporosis.