Osteoporosis Medications May Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer
Women who took bisphosphonates were less likely to develop invasive breast cancer than women who did not take these bone-strengthening drugs, according to a recent analysis of participants in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) program.
As recently presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers detailed that breast cancer developed in only 64 out of 2,216 women who were taking bisphosphonates when entering the WHI program back in 1991.
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Depression Leads to Bone Loss, Especially in Young Women
Depressed people have lower bone mineral density (BMD) than people who are not depressed, according to new research stating that depression should be included as an official risk factor for osteoporosis.
As recently detailed in the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers examined all studies on depression and bone mineral density conducted to date, with 23 papers identified and approximately 2,322 depressed and 21,141 non-depressed individuals studied.
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