Sydney:
According to new data published in the journal Bone and Mineral Research, there has been significant research into the two-way relationship between brain degeneration and bone fractures in women. Cognitive, intellectual or sensory degeneration and osteoporosis are usually seen and found together.
Dina Blake, a senior female research officer at the Garwin Institute of Medical Research in Australia, and her colleagues wrote in the context of this research study that cognitive, intellectual or sensory impairment and osteoporosis (severe osteoporosis) often coexist. And some evidence suggests that they have a causal relationship, meaning they occur because of each other, but there is no data on the long-term relationship between mental decline and bone fatigue and fracture risk beyond age.
Professor Dina Blake said in a press release that the findings of the study could help in clinical practice how to monitor bone weakness and mental retardation to ensure effective and accurate treatment in old age. This is important because bone loss and mental retardation are both ‘silent states’, and cannot be detected for long periods of time, until the condition worsens.
In the study, Dina Blake and her colleagues analyzed 1,741 women and 620 men aged 65 from 1997 to 2013, 16 years old, who had no dementia.
During this time, they went to clinics for bone mineral density (an X-ray that measures the amount of calcium in the bones) and the Mental Health Examination (MMSE) in the fifth and tenth years. MMSE is a cognitive test that tests older people’s cognition, attention, memory, language, visual and location skills. In addition, each year they send e-mail questionnaires about fractures. Stay
Over a five-year period, more than 95% of the participants had a normal perceptual strength, with an MMSE score of at least 24, but during the first ten years of follow-up, both men and women were equally perceptive or There was a significant decline in intelligence, at 4.5% for women and 4% for men. Bone mineral density (BMD) also decreased by 3.4% in women and 4.7% in men.
