Diseases of Bone

Question 1

What is Ehlers-Danlos

Answer 1

it affects type three collagen in the advantitia of the blood vessels and predisposes these blood vessels to saccular anuerisms

Question 2

What determines how much weight the bone can bear?

Answer 2

the mass of the bone

Question 3

What is osteopaenia?

Answer 3

a lower bone mass

Question 4

What is osteoporosis?

Answer 4

a more severe form of osteopaenia

Question 5

How much bone mass do you lose between the ages of 25-about 50?

Answer 5

0.3-0.5%

Question 6

What happens when women hit menopause?

Answer 6

women begin to lose bone mass by about 1.5-3% per year

Question 7

What causes women to lose so much bone mass during menopause?

Answer 7

Drop in estrogen levels

Question 8

How much bone mass have older women lost?

Answer 8

35-50%

Question 9

How much bone mass have older men lost?

Answer 9

20-35%

Question 10

What type of bone generally breaks if someone has osteopaenia?

Answer 10

cancellous

Question 11

how many people are diagnosed with osteoporosis

Answer 11

10-12 million people

Question 12

How many women are diagnosed with osteoporosis?

Answer 12

8 million women

Question 13

how many millions of people have undetected osteoporosis?

Answer 13

30 million people

Question 14

how many fractures does osteopososis cause per year?

Answer 14

1.5

Question 15

What is the most common fracture with osteoporosis

Answer 15

vertebral

Question 16

What it is called when patients are hunched over?

Answer 16

kyphosis

Question 17

how many vertebral fractures occur per year?

Answer 17

700,000

Question 18

How many hip fractures occur per year?

Answer 18

300,000

Question 19

what is it called when people turn their wrists out when they fall

Answer 19

Colle’s fracture

Question 20

What is it called when people turn their wrists in when something happens?

Answer 20

Smith’s fracture

Question 21

What is the largest risk factors for getting osteoporosis?

Answer 21

gender

Question 22

What races are most susceptible to osteoporosis

Answer 22

white, southeast Asian

Question 23

What is osteogenesis imperfects

Answer 23

when arginine is substituted for arginine and the triple helix spacing between these is larger