Plenty of lifestyle and health factors can put you on a fast track to osteoporosis.

Younger women and those with normal BMI who met certain thresholds for weekly moderate-intensity physical activity ...

Osteoporosis — a significant drop in bone density — can lead to fractures and disability if left untreated. Here are ways to ...

When people think about protecting their health, bone health often takes a back seat to more prominent concerns like cancer or heart disease. But for women, bone density can become a real issue with ...

Investigators used 3-dimensional quantitative computed tomography to more accurately assess patients’ bone mineral density. Low bone mineral density (BMD) appears to be common among children with ...

Like the rest of you, your bones need more attention as the years pass. Some 10 million Americans over age 50 have the weak and brittle bones of osteoporosis—and an additional 44 million have ...

Loss of bone mineral density (BMD) with age is an important cause of osteoporosis (deterioration of bone tissue), which has been reported as one of the leading causes of falls among older adults in ...