What are the dangers of osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is one of the most common conditions in postmenopausal women and middle-aged and elderly patients. Osteoporosis has the danger of high morbidity, disability and mortality. Osteoporosis can cause shortening of a person’s height, pain in bones and joints throughout the body, hunchback, deformation of the thorax, etc. Symptoms such as weakness and difficulty in breathing can occur at this time. When osteoporosis is severe, sometimes coughing can lead to rib fractures. The fractures are difficult to heal afterwards, causing elderly patients to be bedridden for a long time. Fractures caused by osteoporosis in the elderly can lead to lung infections and cardiovascular complications, etc., resulting in a mortality rate of up to 10%.