THIS DISEASE DOES NOT CAUSE PAIN, BUT MAY MAKE YOU DEPENDENT ON OTHERS WHEN YOU GET OLD
No pain. No fever. There weren’t any obvious signs. However, after just a seemingly slight slip, many people have to face broken wrists, collapsed vertebrae or serious hip fractures. That silent disease is osteoporosis. Many Vietnamese women often pay special attention to blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol or cancer screening, but rarely think about the health of their bones and joints. Meanwhile, after menopause, the amount of estrogen hormone drops sharply, causing bone loss to occur faster. In addition, low weight and small stature typical of Asians are also leading risk factors that increase the rate of osteoporosis. 1. Osteoporosis: The silent killer that deprives women of independence The scariest thing is that osteoporosis often does not cause any clinical symptoms for many years. You can still walk, work and live completely normally, while the bone density inside is silently decreasing over time. Many
