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Osteoporosis after oophorectomy for non-malignant disease in premenopausal women
- Source :
- British medical journal. 2(5862)
- Publication Year :
- 1973
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Abstract
- The role of oophorectomy in the development of osteoporosis was assessed retrospectively in 258 women who had been hysterectomized premenopausally for non-malignant disease. Bone density was assessed using the radiographic density of the third metacarpal. Oophorectomy before the age of 45 years was found to be associated with a significantly increased prevalence of osteoporosis within three to six years of operation. The bone density of women oophorectomized after the age of 45 years was indistinguishable three to six years after operation from that found in healthy women with intact ovaries. These findings confirm the major part played by loss of ovarian function in the development of postmenopausal osteoporosis.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Bone density
medicine.medical_treatment
Osteoporosis
Ovary
Disease
Hysterectomy
chemistry.chemical_compound
Absorptiometry, Photon
medicine
Humans
Castration
Menorrhagia
General Environmental Science
Gynecology
business.industry
General Engineering
Age Factors
Oophorectomy
General Medicine
Papers and Originals
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Menopause
medicine.anatomical_structure
chemistry
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
Metacarpus
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00071447
- Volume :
- 2
- Issue :
- 5862
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British medical journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2e184f27e707d156f6a3cb1a3e3f66a3