Prevalence of postmenopausal osteoporosis in bukhara region

Questioning for 378 women from 50 to 80 years of age who are in menopause and live in Bukhara re-gion. The prevalence of osteoporosis among surveyed postmenopausal women living in Bukhara region com-prised 24.1%, osteopenia - 33.6%.With increase of age there the number of women with normal BMD signifi- cantly declines (from 50.5% at age of 50-59 to 5,0% - at ≥70).Dairy products were regularly consumed by less than half of the women (43.7%) and 46.3% were physically active during at least 30 minutes daily. Early men-opause was significantly more common among women with osteoporosis (39.6%), than in women with nBMD (20.6%). Irregular consumption of dairy products, low physical activity and the duration of menopause were the risk factors in the studied group of women