Indian adults have a lower bone mineral density than their western counterparts and are more prone to develop osteoporosis, researchers from India report. In fact, in the 50-plus age group, more than half of Indian women and more than a third of men are osteopenic.
The paucity of “normative data” on osteoporosis and bone mineral density in Indian adults prompted Dr. Ketan C. Pande of the Centre for Osteoporosis Research and Management in Nagpur to measure the bone density in 177 adult men and 261 women, ranging from 20 to 79 years of age. Subjects were classified into three groups–normal, osteopenic and osteoporotic, based on WHO-defined bone density measurements.
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