Osteoporosis can not only repair calcium

The fourth hospital of jilin university institute of osteoporosis ZhangMengMeng 

Sources: health

        Mention osteoporosis, a lot of people think is due to the calcium causes, actually vitamin D deficiency is the important reason for the elderly osteoporosis.

        More than ninety percent of osteoporosis is vitamin D levels drop

        Osteoporosis is the low bone mass and bone subtle structural failure, bone of brittle fracture, it is easy to increase for the characteristics of the whole body metabolic disease, its bone metabolic characteristic is bone loss is greater than the bone formation. Speed up the pace of life, nutritional imbalance, insufficient physical activity and other reasons can lead to osteoporosis.

        Data shows that, at present, China's fifty years old osteoporosis patients about 69.44 million, in which the number of women is about three times as much as men, and thus bring fracture, pain, the incidence of spinal deformity is increasing day by day.

        In old people how to maintain bone mass, to prevent the occurrence of osteoporosis? We do a study proved that 1087 osteoporosis patients in 993 vitamin D levels were lower and 137 osteoporotic fractures in patients with serious lack of vitamin D. Vitamin D can promote bone mineralization and bone formation, increase the intestinal tract, kidney to calcium absorption, improve human body weight balance ability, and the immune mechanism. In addition, vitamin D to participate in calcium phosphorus metabolism, regulate cell growth, development and proliferation and to maintain bone mass has a crucial role.

        Sunshine become influence people cause vitamin D levels

        Main sources of vitamin D are endogenous and external two ways. The skin in the sunlight or ultraviolet irradiation by photochemical reaction synthesis of vitamin D is human endogenous vitamin D, the major source of extrinsic vitamin D can the food, its main from seafood.

        Blood vitamin D levels and regional, diet structure and sunshine time about, different regions, gender, age, season serum vitamin D level differences, even if the same area, the same ethnic groups in different seasons of vitamin D level fluctuation is very big also, liver and kidney function differences can also affect vitamin D metabolism.

        As the Chinese people less vitamin D intake, so is the influence of vitamin D levels of important factors. In the north of China high latitudes and winter, the skin can hardly synthetic vitamin D. As the growth of the age, the old outdoor activity decreases, kidney and liver vitamin D synthesis transformation ability also relatively young declined. Many young women years not to participate in outdoor sports, also easy to cause vitamin D deficiency. Therefore, the elderly, the lack of sunshine, lack of outdoor and influence with vitamin D absorption of the patients, perennial living in high latitude area, all the people should pay attention to vitamin D supplements.

        To appear muscle pain, muscle weakness, walking instability, balance ability is poor or fall, even fracture patients need to monitor the change of serum vitamin D3, and bone mineral density detection, these can help to early diagnosis of osteoporosis and the correct use of vitamin D. (LiXiaoFeng finishing)