What your Doctor May Not Tell you about Osteoporosis

Felicia Cosman, M.D, the author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Osteoporosis is clinical director of the National Osteoporosis Foundation. She, herself, has porous bones, something she refers to fairly often in her book.

The book is divided into Five Parts:

Part I UNDERSTANDING OSTEOPOROSISThis has 3 chapters: My Personal Journey; What is Osteoporosis; Thye Architecture of a Disease.

Part II PREVENTING AND SLOWING THE EFFECTS OF OSTEOPOROSISThis part of Felicia Cosman’s books has 5 chapters: Prevention: The Universal Message; Prevention: Step One; Reducing Risk Factors; Prevention: Step Two: Nutrition; Prevention Step Three: Exercise; Prevention Step Four: Supplements and Viatmins?

Part III: DIAGNOSIING OSTEOPORSISThis section of , What your Doctor May Not Tell you about Osteoporosis, has three chapters. Are You at Risk?; Getting Tested: Measuring and Reporting Bone Mass; Blood and Urine: Tests and Radiologic Procedures.

PART IV: MEDICATION AND TREATMENTThis part of the book has 9 chapters. Fracture care and Rehabilitation; Medication for Osteoporosis in women; Estrogen or Hormone Therapy; Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators; Calcitonin; Bisphosphonates; Parathyroid Hormone; None-FDA-Approved Treatments; Monitoring Treatment.

PART V: SPECIAL CASESHere we have 3 chapters: Men; The Premenopausal Woman; Osteoporosis Associated with Steroids.

Afterward: the Future

Appendix A: Interpreting Medical Evidence

Appendix B: Web Sites that Felicia Cosman MD recommends.

When reading, what Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Osteoporosis, it is important to remember that this book was published in 2003 and so although the author goes step by step and talks about the sorts of things a medical doctor is most likely to consider important, the book does not contain the latest information.

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