%0 Journal Article %A Amiri, Mohammad %A Larijani, Bagher %A Nabipour, Iraj %A Moosavi, Seyed Fazlollah %A Amiri, Zahra %A Soltanian, Alireza %A Mohammadi, Mohammad Mehdi %A Bahramian, Fatemeh %A Emami, Seyed Reza %A Asaadi, Kambiz %T The prevalence of osteoporosis in 20-69 years old women in Bushehr port %J Iranian South Medical Journal %V 7 %N 1 %U http://ismj.bpums.ac.ir/article-1-85-en.html %R %D 2004 %K osteoporosis, women, bone density, menopause, %X Osteoporosis is an increasing important health problem in the world. The diagnosis of osteoporosis is made by determining that the patient has low bone density, usually by a Dual Energy X-ray Absortiometry (DEXA) measurement. In order to reveal the prevalence of osteoporosis in 20-69 years old women in Bushehr port using DEXA measurements in three parts of femoral sites and lumbar (L2-L4) area, 588 females from 13 clusters were randomly selected. The mean of bone mineral densities were 1.005 (0.171) and 0.794 (0.147) gram/cm2 in lumbar and femoral areas, respectively. The bone mineral densities decreased by increasing in age (p %> http://ismj.bpums.ac.ir/article-1-85-en.pdf %P 61-69 %& 61 %! %9 Original %L A-10-3-84 %+ %G eng %@ 1735-4374 %[ 2004