Health: Osteoporosis severe fractures continues to stop with '100 ... - Reuters Press Agency

(ASCA) – Milan, June 6 – How to recognize the warning signs of osteoporosis severe? Which exams to recommend and how often run them? There is a link between severe osteoporosis and other diseases? How does the fragility ‘bone’ in a position to change the lives of people affected by it? What diet is recommended to combat this disease? These are some of the questions on which it focuses the attention of people with fragility ‘bone, then with osteoporosis at risk of complications.

Now in its third edition, the campaign” Stop the fractures’ proposes to raise the awareness of people suffering from severe osteoporosis promoting knowledge about the disease and response to the many questions posed by users through the initiative” 100” Doctors.

Since 2012, in fact, through the dedicated website www . stopallefratture.it, the users have had the chance ‘to evaluate their fracture risk by performing the DEFRA Test, self-diagnosis tool online, and then send a request by email to a specialist, and in response have free information and clarification on’ severe osteoporosis.

One year after the service, the knowledge of this disease, which every year in Italy and ‘responsible for approximately 100,000 hip fractures, and’ still very limited.

Into The inquiry covers several aspects of the disease: the recognition of the symptoms, the appropriate path for establishing the diagnosis, treatment available, behaviors and lifestyles recommended, ending with the impact that the fragility ‘bone has on the quality ‘of life of affected individuals.

In the face of severe osteoporosis diagnosis of the main concerns the consequences in the life of every day and the presence of disability’. These include the possibility ‘to continue to practice activities’ sports or leisure, the ability’ to preserve its autonomy, the need ‘to follow a specific diet, the potential risk of incurring new fractures are the questions that most’ frequently have been addressed to the” 100” Doctors Stop at fractures by patients with severe osteoporosis.

The Campaign educational and ‘aimed at women over 50 years of age’ to inform them about the possible consequences due to the fragility ‘skeletal. The initiative sees the involvement of prestigious society ‘as the scientific SIOMMMS (Societa’ Italian Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism and Skeletal Diseases), the SIOT (Societa ‘Italian of Orthopedics and Traumatology), the SIR (Societa’ Italian of Rheumatology), the ORTOMED (Societa ‘Italian Orthopedics and Medicine) and GISOOS (Italian Study Group in Orthopedics Osteoporosis Severa).

In the website www.stopallefratture.it, the Patients can find information about the disease, how it is diagnosed and treatment, also may perform online DEFRA Test, which lets you know in percentage terms, the risk of fracture in the next 10 years. Finally, we provide a personalized consultation, through e-mail, to be a specialist of their geographic area (province or region).

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