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Osteopenia or osteoporosis
What is the difference between osteopenia and osteoporosis?
To better understand this issue, let's compare bone structure with reinforced concrete
Collagen strands have the role of reinforcement or rebars and calcium is concrete or cement
🌷 The lack of mineral component and calcium causes that the main components of the bone only include soft and flexible collagen fibers
Such a bone, like a fresh branch of a tree, has the characteristic of flexibility and bending due to pressure, and therefore we see that in children suffering from osteopenia or rickets, they have deviations in the leg bones.
In the case of a lack of collagen fibers, calcium is irregularly and limitedly deposited without having a special scaffold, and such bones remain dry, inflexible and easily fractured under pressure, so called osteoporosis or osteoporosis.
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