
Your bones help you move, give you shape and support your body. They are living tissues that rebuild constantly throughout your life. During childhood and your teens, your body adds new bone faster than it removes old bone. After about age 20, you can lose bone faster than you make bone. To have strong bones when you are young, and to prevent bone loss when you are older, you need to get enough
Bone diseases can make bones easy to break. Different kinds of bone problems include:
- Bone Diseases (National Library of Medicine)Your bones help you move, give you shape and support your body. They are living tissues that rebuild constantly throughout your life. During childhood and ...
- ... be separate disorders.In most cases of Winchester syndrome, bone loss begins in the hands and feet, causing ... MMP2 and is allelic to NAO and Winchester syndrome. J Bone Miner Res. 2007 Feb;22(2):329-33. ...
- ... MMP2 and is allelic to NAO and Winchester syndrome. J Bone Miner Res. 2007 Feb;22(2):329-33. ...
- ... by scar tissue ( myelofibrosis ) Disorder in which the bone marrow produces too many red blood cells (polycythemia) or platelets (thrombocytosis) Disorder in which not enough healthy blood cells are made ( myelodysplastic syndrome ; MDS)
- ... been found in individuals with conditions called bent bone dysplasia syndrome and Antley-Bixler syndrome.Bent bone dysplasia syndrome is characterized by the underdevelopment of certain bones, ...
- 5q minus (5q-) syndrome is a type of bone marrow disorder called myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). MDS comprises a group of conditions in which immature blood cells fail to ...
- ... syndrome Albright's disease Albright's disease of bone Albright's syndrome Albright's syndrome with precocious puberty Albright-McCune- ... Testing Registry: McCune-Albright syndrome Fibrous dysplasia of bone McCune-Albright syndrome National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) ClinicalTrials.gov ...
- ... It causes problems with the skin, sinuses, lungs, bones, and teeth. ... of the immune system X-ray of the bones CT scan of the sinuses A scoring system that combines the different problems of Hyper IgE syndrome may be used to help make the diagnosis.
- ... can stimulate the abnormal growth and fusion of bones.The skeletal abnormalities found in the severe form of this disorder can also result from mutations in another gene, FGFR2. Some researchers use the name Antley-Bixler syndrome to describe these features, whether they are caused ...
- ... problems. The LRP5 gene variants responsible for increased bone mineral density syndromes overactivate the LRP5 protein, which increases Wnt signaling ...