Correct! The FALSE
statement was:
by
age 75, five percent of all men are affected by osteoporosis
The correct statement
is - by age 75, one-third of all men are affected.
The other statements
are true because:
Osteoporosis
DOES develops less often in men than in women. You'll recall reasons
for this include:
- men have
larger skeletons with a greater cross-sectional area
- their bone loss starts later in life and progresses slower
- they do not experience the period of rapid hormonal change with accompanying
bone loss that women do when they undergo menopause
Men
DO attain an initial higher peak bone mass than women, so they have
more bone to lose before they reach a critical point where fractures can
occur easily.
Two
million American men presently DO have this disease, and another
3.5 million are at high risk to develop osteoporosis.
