Re: Re: promising drug for bone loss

[Guest guest]

Tim: not necessarily a disorder of aging. Losing weight and anorexia can

bring on osteo in young people.

on 2/21/2003 6:19 AM, Tim Tyler <tt2333@...> at tt2333@...

wrote:

> Francesca Skelton <fskelton@e...> quoted:

>

>> " There are a lot of exciting things happening with

>> osteoporosis, " said Silverman.

>>

>> " It's not a disorder of aging. It's treatable. "

>

> Look at the subtext here: disorders of aging are not treatable.

>

> Of course osteoporosis is a disorder of aging - it's just not

> such an inevitable one these days.

>

[Guest guest]

I just want people to understand that rapid weight loss can bring on

osteoporosis (as it has in several cronies) and is a " risk factor " when

dieting or croning.

on 2/22/2003 4:38 AM, Tim Tyler <tt2333@...> at tt2333@...

wrote:

>> Tim: not necessarily a disorder of aging. Losing weight

>> and anorexia can bring on osteo in young people.

>

> I would say that a " disorder of aging " is a pathology for which age

> is a risk factor.

>

> If you define " disorder of aging " as referring to syndromes that no

> young people are afflicted with, it seems that the term loses

> utility.