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Brittle Bones: Osteoporosis Is Affected by Age and Lack of Vitamin D |
| Section: LIFE / HEALTH |
| Author: Jen Waters |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,092 Words, 6,911 Characters |
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Margaret Lucas of Washington, D.C., has pain in her bones. Her discomfort started after eight months of chemotherapy for colon cancer. Since her doctors are concerned that the treatment may have caused osteoporosis, Lucas, 76, recently underwent a dual emission X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan, also known as a bone density test, at Washington Hospital Center.
"Some days my bones don't hurt. Some days they do," she says. "If I try to walk a block, I'll have to stop, but it doesn't hurt when I'm sitting or laying down."
In October, Dr. Richard H. Carmona, U.S. surgeon general, issued the first-ever report on the state of bone health in the nation, Bone Health and Osteoporosis: A Report of the Surgeon General. By the year 2020, one in two Americans older than age 50 will be at risk for ...
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...e density and fractures.
McGowan also is hopeful that genetic research in humans and mice will lead to greater understanding of the disease. "Right now, we don't know the genes causing osteoporosis," she says. "We are identifying the genes. There will be multiple genes, each contributing a little bit, that are involved in building a strong skeleton."
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