by. Won so-yeon
As we become old, a part or an organ of our body gradually
atrophy after we reach a certain age level. This can be illustrated by bone
deterioration. People lose dense bone density and the loss in bone mineral
density can lead to osteoporosis which is disease that has a high chance to
suffer a fracture. Generally, in case of women, the density of bone decrease by
loss of estrogen in postmenopausal women and men meet with bone loss at 70s on
average. However, young patient who has the osteoporosis is increasing because
of various reasons such as other illness that patient has, drug, diet,
exercising and etc.
Laura Landro covered this issue in her article ‘Risks to Bone Health in
Treating Chronic Disease in Younger Patients’. According to her article,
patients have osteoporosis because of other reasons such as smoking, excessive
alcohol drink, eating, inactivity and illness like anorexia nervosa not aging
and this osteoporosis is called Secondary osteoporosis. The National
Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) of U.S estimated the number of osteoporotic
patients at around 9 million and early stage of osteoporosis at almost 43
million among the American people. Accordingly, osteopenia, the early stage of
osteoporosis, is the state that bone density decrease slightly but there is
high potential risk to be caught with osteoporosis and fracture. If osteopenia
patients leave this matter uncured, the risk of injury and disability increase,
therefore, regular checkup is needed preliminarily. If you want to prevent
juvenile osteoporosis, then you have to care when you are young before the
disease start. Preventive medicine of osteoporosis show good effect depending
on patient’s physical condition, so, checking their health is important.
Moreover, taking some medicine and disease hinder patients from absorbing
nutrients that compose bone, therefore, dietary therapy or alternative
treatments is recommended to sufferer instead of taking medicine.
Our life became convenient and the level of
life improved thanks to development of science and technology. Additionally,
people do not need to move around much because of well equipped transportation
system and convenient internet shopping. These advancements provide benefit
however there is also demerits. Obesity is growing more and more in these days
and people suffer from hormonal disorder or change that menstruation and
menopause was moved forward. It can be a fatal change depending on what hormone
was affected.
Additionally,
the development of new pharmaceuticals also brings side effects even though a
lot of patients recovered from their disease because of new medicine. For
example, thalidomide was a big issue. Thalidomide is known for treatment of
headache and insomnia. Also it was used to relieve morning sickness, but the
fact that thalidomide act in the first three months of embryological
development. So, a number of thalidomide victims spring up all over the world.
In a
nutshell, it is important to contribute for advancement, but we need safeguard
to protect from the potential adverse effects of these advancements. And
sometimes traditional ways might be good for us rather than seek just
convenient things.
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