Which factors make people susceptible to osteoporosis?
Last updated: Friday, March 04, 2005
The risk factors for osteoporosis include being elderly, being of Asian or Caucasian origin, leading a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, drinking lots of coffee, having low body weight, having a family history of osteoporosis, drinking alcohol excessively, having a calcium-deficient diet, never having had children (applies to women), long-term use of certain medications such as corticosteroids, and being oestrogendeficient (women) an
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