Journal of Women's Health Care
Open Access

Abstract

Prevalence of Osteoporosis in Female Population in Rural Central India [By Calcaneal Ultrasound]

Sunil Nikose, Pradeep Singh, Sohael Khan, Mridul Arora, Shounak Taywade, Mahendra Gudhe and Swapnil Gadge

Introduction: Osteoporosis poses a huge challenge in India, as it is a developing country due to demographic transition and aging of the population along with limited resource availability in rural India. Worldwide, osteoporosis predominantly affects postmenopausal women, and elderly population of both gender. Previously osteoporosis has been primarily considered of disease of postmenopausal women. The exact disease burden is difficult to quantify because of the limited data availability along with difficult quantification of magnitude of the problem. The World Health Organization [WHO] has developed an algorithm for estimation of ten year fracture risk, which may be used even in the absence of bone mineral density. Smoking or tobacco intake, malnourishment, alcohol has a negative effect on bone mineral density [BMD].
Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate osteoporosis screening of the rural female population to establish correlation of osteoporosis with age group and socioeconomic strata of the patients.
Methods and Material: A total number of 3532 rural female patients were screened and graded accordance to their demographic profile and socioeconomic strata. All the patients were screened for osteoporosis using a portable heel ultrasound bone densitometer. In all the female patients bone mineral density [BMD] was measured.
Results: Results showed significant population had lower BMD score, which suggest osteoporosis and had statistical significant correlation with their socioeconomic, literacy and emotional family backup. However, we found that the prevalence of osteoporosis was homogenous in all the age group.