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ScienceAsia 8 (1982): 005-023 |doi: 10.2306/scienceasia1513-1874.1982.08.005

 

POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS

 

NATEETIP KRISHNAMRA and LIANGCHAI LIMLOMWONGSE

ABSTRACT: Osteoporosis occurs predominantly in women aged 45 to, 50 years at the outset of menopause and progresses with age. Most authors support the hypothesis that the cause of postmenopausal bone loss is an increased bone resorption in the presence of a basically normal state of formation. Although sex steroids have been used extensively in the treatment of postmenopausal osteDporosis and other types of osteoporosis, their mechanism of action and therapeutic usefulness are not completely understood and form the subject of this review.

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Department of Physiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama VI Road,. Bangkok 4, Thailand.