Osteoporosis And The Midlife Woman - #52

Today I am focusing on osteoporosis and midlife women. It’s called the “silent disease” because you can’t feel your bones getting weaker. The National Osteoporosis Foundation offers these facts:

-1 in 2 women will break a bone due to osteoporosis after the age of 50.

-A woman’s risk of fracture is equal to her combined risk of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer.

-24% of hip fracture patients age 50 and over die in the year following the fracture.

-A bone density test is the best way to diagnose osteoporosis and determine a treatment plan.

-They recommend you get this test at age 65- which is when most health insurance companies will pay for it.

A PubMed publication stated that women are most likely to be diagnosed with osteoporosis 10-15 years post-menopause, which would make them about 65. At that point, treatment will be a band-aid. It certainly won’t be preventive.

Some of my midlife clients have discovered they have osteopenia while working with me because I encouraged them to get checked. They’re in their 40’s, they’re peri-menopausal. Could you imagine if they waited another 20 years to get checked?

My guest today is a bone health and menopause expert who’d going to break it all down for us today. It’s definitely a topic not talked about enough until it has to be, which is often too late.

Dr. Kristi Tough DeSapri is a board-certified internist specializing in midlife women’s health. After fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic, she has worked in private practice and academic medicine for over 13 years, including being the director of the Northwestern Women’s Bone Health program at the Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. She is currently opening Bone and Body Women’s Health, a concierge midlife women’s health practice in the Chicago area, focused on consultation and management of perimenopause, menopause, osteoporosis, and sexual health.

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Calcium Calculator: https://www.osteoporosis.foundation/educational-hub/topic/calcium-calculator

Fracture Risk Assessment Tool: https://frax.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/tool.aspx?country=9

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