More causes:see full list of causes for Osteoporosis
Causes of Osteoporosis (Diseases Database):
The follow list shows some of the possible medical causes of Osteoporosis
that are listed by the Diseases Database:
Source: Diseases Database
Osteoporosis Causes: Risk Factors
The following conditions have been cited in various
sources as potentially causal risk factors
related to Osteoporosis:
Race Patterns for Osteoporosis Causes:
Racial Information for Osteoporosis: Asian American women are at particular risk for osteoporosis due
to their relatively lower bone mass and density,... (Source: excerpt from Asian & Pacific Islander Women's Health: NWHIC)
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Osteoporosis Causes: Male-Female Gender Ratio
Gender of Patients for Osteoporosis: Women 80%, i.e. women 4 times more likely than men....more »
Gender Profile of Osteoporosis: Eighty percent of
them are women, and most are over 50 years of age. (Source: excerpt from Hormone Replacement Therapy Is It For You -- Age Page -- Health Information: NIA)
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Gender Profile of Osteoporosis: Women are four times more likely than men to develop
osteoporosis because of the loss of estrogen... (Source: excerpt from Osteoporosis: NWHIC)
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Osteoporosis: Related Medical Conditions
To research the causes of Osteoporosis, consider researching the causes of these
these diseases that may be similar, or associated with Osteoporosis:
Osteoporosis: Causes and Types
Causes of Types of Osteoporosis: Review the cause informationfor the various types of Osteoporosis:
Causes of Broader Categories of Osteoporosis: Review the causal information about the various more general categories of medical conditions:
Osteoporosis as a complication of other conditions:
Other conditions that might have
Osteoporosis as a complication may,
potentially, be an underlying cause of Osteoporosis.
Our database lists the following as having
Osteoporosis as a complication of that condition:
- Adult Cystic Fibrosis
- Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
- Alpha thalassemia
- Alpha thalassemia -- Hemoglobin H disease
- Alpha thalassemia major
- Anemia, Blackfan Diamond
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
- Beta thalassemia
- Beta Thalassemia intermedia
- Biliary cirrhosis
- Brown-Sequard Syndrome
- Celiac Disease
- Chronic Hepatitis
- Crohn's disease
- Cushing's syndrome
- Diamond-Blackfan anemia
- Eating disorders
- Galactorrhoea-Hyperprolactinaemia
- Gonadal dysgenesis
- Juvenile Paget disease
- Kidney conditions
- Kidney disease
- Lactotroph adenoma
- Leukemia, mast-cell
- Menkes Disease
- Menopause
- Neuritis
- Ovarian insufficiency due to FSH resistance
- Ovarian insufficiency, familial
- Paget disease juvenile type
- Premature aging
- Premature Ovarian Failure 1
- Premature Ovarian Failure 2
- Premature Ovarian Failure 2A
- Premature Ovarian Failure 2B
- Premature Ovarian Failure 3
- Premature Ovarian Failure 4
- Premature Ovarian Failure 5
- Premature Ovarian Failure 6
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis 1
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis 2
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis 3
- Primary hyperoxaluria type 1
- Primary hyperoxaluria type 2
- Prolactinoma
- Prolactinoma, familial
- Pure red cell aplasia, congenital
- Renal osteodystrophy
- Secondary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome
- Sub clinical hypothyroidism
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Hemolytic Anemia, Susceptibility to, 1
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Nephritis, Susceptibility to, 1
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus with Vitiligo, Susceptibility to, 1
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 1
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 10
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 11
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 12
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 13
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 2
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 3
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 4
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 5
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 6
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 7
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 8
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Susceptibility to, 9
- Ulcerative colitis
- Underweight
- Werner syndrome
- Wyburn-Mason Syndrome
Osteoporosis as a symptom:
Conditions listing Osteoporosis
as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Osteoporosis.
Our database lists the following as having
Osteoporosis as a symptom of that condition:
- Abderhalden-Kaufmann-Lignac syndrome
- Achalasia -- addisonianism -- alacrima syndrome
- Achalasia -- Addisonianism -- Alacrimia syndrome
- ACPS III
- Acrocephalopolydactyly -- Cardiac Disease -- Ear, Skin and Lower Limb Defects
- Acrocephalopolysyndactyly type III
- Acroosteolysis neurogenic
- Adrenal adenoma, familial
- Adrenal Cancer
- Adrenal Cortex Diseases
- Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms
- Adrenal gland hyperfunction
- Adrenal incidentaloma
- Adrenocortical carcinoma
- Andropause
- Aromatase deficiency
- Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita -- pulmonary hypoplasia
- Aspartylglucosaminidase deficiency
- Aspartylglucosaminuria
- Aspartylglycosaminuria
- Aural atresia -- multiple congenital anomalies -- mental retardation
- Biliary cirrhosis
- Boyd-Stearns syndrome
- Brachydactyly -- tibial hypoplasia
- Cantu Sanchez-Corona Garcia-cruz syndrome
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosus
- Chemical poisoning -- White Phosphorus
- Cholestasis
- Christian-Demyer-Franken syndrome
- Chromosome 1, deletion q21 q25
- Chromosome 11, Partial Monosomy 11q
- Cushing syndrome, familial
- Cushing's disease
- Cushing's syndrome
- Cutis laxa -- osteoporosis
- Cutis Laxa, Autosomal Recessive, Type IIB
- Davis syndrome
- Del(1) (23-q25)
- Dibasic aminoaciduria 2
- Dwarfism -- thin bones -- multiple fractures
- Dyskeratosis Congenita
- Eccentrochondrodysplasia
- Excessive dieting
- Fanconi-Albertini-Zellweger syndrome
- Fanconi-ichthyosis-dysmorphism
- Fontaine-Farriaux-Blanckaert syndrome
- Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor
- Geroderma osteodysplastica
- Gerodermia osteodysplastica
- Gerodermia osteodysplastica hereditaria
- Gerodermia osteodysplasticum
- Gorham's syndrome
- Hajdu-Cheney Syndrome
- Hapnes-Boman-Skeie syndrome
- Homocystinuria
- Homocystinuria due to cystathionine beta-synthase deficiency
- Homocystinuria due to defect in methylation cbl e
- Hutchinson Gilford Syndrome
- Hyper IgE
- Hyper-IgE Syndrome
- Hyperadrenalism
- Hyperdibasic aminoaciduria type 2
- Hyperglycerolemia, infantile form
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperprolactinemia
- Hypersecretion of growth hormone
- Hypertrichotic osteochondrodysplasia
- Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism -- syndactyly
- Hypophosphatemic rickets
- Immunodeficiency with short limb dwarfism
- Infantile multisystem inflammatory disease
- Intellectual deficit -- cataracts -- calcified pinnae -- myopathy
- Jacobsen syndrome
- Job syndrome
- Kaler-Garrity-Stern syndrome
- Kniest dysplasia
- Larsen syndrome, recessive type
- Larsen-like osseous dysplasia -- dwarfism
- Lawrence-Seip syndrome
- Lichstenstein syndrome
- Lobstein disease
- Lockwood-Feingold syndrome
- Lysinuric protein intolerance
- Macroepiphyseal dysplasia with osteoporosis, wrinkled skin, and aged appearance
- Marie-Bamberg syndrome
- Mental retardation cataracts calcified pinnae myopathy
- Mental retardation, Buenos Aires type
- Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia Spahr type
- Metaphyseal dysplasia -- maxillary hypoplasia -- brachydactyly
- Metaphyseal dysplasia Pyle type
- Methylmalonic acidemia, cobalamin A deficiency
- Methylmalonic acidemia, Cobalamin B deficiency
- Methylmalonic acidemia, Methylmalonyl CoA mutase deficiency
- Methylmalonic acidemia, methylmalonyl CoA racemase deficiency
- Microcephaly -- mental retardation -- retinopathy
- Mixed connective tissue disease
- Morquio syndrome
- Morquio syndrome type A
- Morquio syndrome, type B
- MPS-IV (Morquio Disease)
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
- Multiple Myeloma
- Multiple pterygium syndrome lethal type
- NOMID syndrome
- Nonkeratan-sulfate-excreting Morquio syndrome
- Ossified Ear cartilages with Mental deficiency, Muscle Wasting and Bony Changes
- Osteochondrodysplatic dwarfism -- deafness -- retinitis pigmentosa
- Osteogenesis imperfecta, type 6
- Osteogenesis imperfecta, Type VI
- Osteolysis hereditary multicentric
- Osteoporosis
- Osteoporosis -- macrocephaly -- blindness -- joint hyperlaxity
- Osteoporosis -- macrocephaly -- mental retardation -- blindness
- Osteoporosis -- oculocutaneous -- hypopigmentation syndrome
- Otospondylomegaepiphyseal dysplasia
- Oxalosis
- Oxalosis, type I
- Oxalosis, Type II
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, recessive, acute infantile
- Pena Shokeir syndrome, type 1
- Pena-Shokeir syndrome Type 2
- Prader-Willi syndrome
- Premature aging, Okamoto type
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Primrose Syndrome
- Prolidase deficiency
- Proximal tubulopathy -- diabetes mellitus -- cerebellar ataxia
- Pseudoprogeria syndrome
- Rajab-Spranger syndrome
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome
- Renal osteodystrophy
- Renal tubulopathy -- diabetes mellitus -- cerebellar ataxia
- Richieri-Costa Da Silva syndrome
- Riley Shwachman syndrome
- Sakati syndrome
- Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome
- Secondary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Secondary hyperparathyroidism
- Short stature -- hyperkaliemia -- acidosis
- Singleton-Merten Syndrome
- Snyder-Robinson syndrome
- Spinocerebellar ataxia -- dysmorphism
- Spinocerebellar ataxia-dysmorphism syndrome
- Sponastrime dysplasia
- Spondylo-ocular syndrome
- Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia with multiple dislocations
- Spondylometaphyseal dysplasia with dentinogenesis imperfecta
- Storm syndrome
- Stuve-Wiedemann dysplasia
- Stuve-Wiedemann syndrome
- Subclinical hyperthyroidism
- The Methylmalonic Acidemias
- The Primary Hyperoxalurias
- Thick skull syndrome
- Tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Urban rogers meyer syndrome
- Werner syndrome
- Wilson's Disease
- Winchester Syndrome
- Wolman syndrome
Medications or substances causing Osteoporosis:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Osteoporosis as a symptom.
This list is incomplete and various other drugs or substances
may cause your symptoms.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
See full list of 25
medications causing Osteoporosis
Drug interactions causing Osteoporosis:
When combined, certain drugs, medications, substances or toxins may react
causing Osteoporosis as a symptom.
The list below is incomplete and various other drugs or substances may cause your symptoms.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
- Raloxifene and Prednisone interaction #occurs with long term use of Prednisone
- Evista and Prednisone interaction #occurs with long term use of Prednisone
- Raloxifene and Deltasone interaction #occurs with long term use of Deltasone
- Evista and Deltasone interaction #occurs with long term use of Deltasone
- Flunisolide and Phenytoin interaction
- more interactions...»
See full list of 80
drug interactions causing Osteoporosis
What causes Osteoporosis?
Causes: Osteoporosis:
Osteoporosis may be attributed to three factors:
(1) accelerated bone loss at menopause in women or as men and women age;
(2) suboptimal bone growth during childhood and adolescence resulting in
failure to reach peak bone mass; and (3) bone loss secondary to disease
conditions, eating disorders, or certain medications and medical
treatments. (Source: excerpt from Osteoporosis Progress and Promise: NIAMS)
Article excerpts about the
causes of Osteoporosis:
Bone is living tissue. Special cells called osteoclasts
are constantly breaking down old bone as other cells known as
osteoblasts are replacing it with new tissue. As people age,
more bone is broken down than is replaced. The inside of bone
normally looks like a honeycomb. In osteoporosis the spaces in this
honeycomb grow larger because much more bone is destroyed than is
replaced. This makes your bones weaker.
Experts do not fully understand why this happens. They do know
that after women go through menopause, levels of the female hormone
estrogen are much lower. These lower hormone levels can lead to bone
loss and osteoporosis. Other causes of this disease include too
little exercise and a diet too low in calcium and vitamin D. (Source: excerpt from Osteoporosis -- Age Page -- Health Information: NIA)
Medical news summaries relating to Osteoporosis:
The following medical news items are relevant to causes of Osteoporosis:
Related information on causes of Osteoporosis:
As with all medical conditions,
there may be many causal factors.
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