Vnitr Lek 2016, 62(Suppl 6):84-87

Osteoporosis - epidemiology and pathogenesis

Ivo Sotorník

Osteologická ambulance, Synlab, s.r.o., Praha

Osteoporosis is considered as a lifestyle disease with high prevalence in the developed countries. Its appearance with number of related fractures has increasing tendency. In the Czech Republic approximately 7 % of the population is affected, which is 700,000 people, 50,000 osteoporosis fractures a year are documented. Most frequent type of osteoporosis is postmenopausal osteoporosis which is classified in the group of primary osteoporosis similarly as a senile osteoporosis (involutive). Secondary osteoporosis is a line of causal risk factors. Osteoporosis at men is usually part of primary or secondary hypogonadism. Idiopathic juvenile osteoporosis is a rare type of the disease, appearing before the puberty and disappearing in the adulthood. Generally exists a list of osteoporosis risk factors analyzed in this article.

Keywords: epidemiology; idiopathic osteoporosis; primary osteoporosis; secondary osteoporosis; risk factors

Received: August 30, 2016; Accepted: October 17, 2016; Published: December 1, 2016  Show citation