[Relationship between psychology and osteoporosis]

Zhongguo Gu Shang. 2013 Jan;26(1):85-7.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Osteoporosis is charactered by body bone mass reduce and bone microstructure degration. With the improvement of biology-psychology-social medical model, it have found a certain relation between osteoporosis and psychology. Psychology have an influence on BMD, contents of bone transition index, bone cytokine consistency and fragility fracture rate. Meantime, life of quality of the patients have been affected by osteoporosis, leading to their psychology situation have an according changes.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Bone Density
  • Fractures, Bone / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Mental Disorders / complications*
  • Mental Disorders / metabolism
  • Osteoporosis / etiology*
  • Osteoporosis / psychology
  • Quality of Life