Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The awareness of osteoporosis is essantial of treatment. We investigated the awareness of osteoporosis in the patients with postmenopausal women in the region of Northeastern Anatolia.

Methods: Four hundred and two patients with postmenopausal women was included in this study. We detected the age of menopause, the conscience of osteoporosis in the postmenopousal period, DEXA reports, habits of regular walking, drinking of milk, and used to vitamin D supplementation.

Results: The age of menopause was 11.7±8.3 years. Postmenopausal women in 90.5% were have the awareness of bone health and osteoporosis in the patients with postmenopausal. DEXA report was detected the per cent of 71.6 of the investigated patients. The percentage of regular the consumption of vitamin D and calcium were 60.5%. Unfortunately, the habits of regular walking (5 km or 10.000 steps per day), the regular consumption of milk (1.0 l per day) and used to any drugs for osteoporosis were low respectively 23.4, 0.5, and 9.4%.

Conclusions: The awareness of bone health and osteoporozis in the postmenopausal women were high in the living of Northeasthern Anatolia. Unfortunately, the percentage of preventional and therapetical intenvention for postmenoposaul osteoporosis were low. This condition may improve the effort of health personels and used to media canals.