Word: bone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many charwomen are buried in graveyards? How many generals? I once watched a cemetery being liquidated, and they were raking bones out. I looked at one of the big femurs and then at a little bone and said, "Man, this must have been a President and this must have been some poor bastard." The whole problem now is that you don't even know who the guy was, so why give a damn...
...Experts estimate that at puberty, when there is a spurt in bone growth, people require 1,200 mg of calcium daily (the equivalent of four glasses of milk or about 6 oz. of hard cheese). Postmenopausal women require 1,500 mg to offset the resorption process...
...majority of victims are elderly women, most of whom suffer from osteoporosis, a progressive thinning of the bones that can leave the skeleton too brittle to withstand even minimal stress. Indeed the bones of the spine can become so papery that they collapse; five vertebrae may fill the space normally occupied by three, causing a protuberance known as "dowager's hump." Says Eleanore Bennink, 73. of Southgate, Mich.: "I was 5 ft. 3 in. when it started. Now I'm 4 ft. 10 in. The pain was horrendous." The condition is prevalent among older women because their frames...
Until recently, treatment has generally been limited to prescribing supplemental estrogen, to slow the resorption rate, and calcium, to facilitate the formation of new bone.* Using a computerized axial tomography scanner, doctors at the University of California in San Francisco are able to take three-dimensional X rays of the bones, measure the loss of minerals and devise an estrogen dosage sufficient to maintain the resorption balance. Says Kaiser-Permanente Endocrinologist Dr. Bruce Ettinger, who does research at U.C.S.F.: "We've been trying to find the smallest dose of estrogen that will prevent osteoporosis. I think we have...
...Minn., believe they may have found a treatment that is as effective as estrogen but without its troubling side effects. In a twelve-year study, Dr. B. Lawrence Riggs and a team of Mayo physicians treated women with large doses of sodium fluoride combined with calcium. Sodium fluoride stimulates bone-forming cells to produce new bone faster than the old bone is resorbed. The Mayo researchers will now study the mechanical quality of the new bone, trying to determine if it is as strong as the tissue produced normally. Preliminary results indicate that the sodium fluoride treatment does restore...