Bad break: Osteoporosis-related bone fractures linked to air pollution

Bad break: Osteoporosis-related bone fractures linked to air pollution

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Exposure to air pollution is associated with osteoporosis-related loss of bone mineral density and risk of bone fractures, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Their findings are published in The Lancet Planetary Health.

The researchers are the first to document high rates of hospital admissions for bone fractures in communities with elevated levels of ambient particulate matter (PM2.5), a component of air pollution, with risk of bone fracture admissions greatest in low-income communities. The findings, from a study of osteoporosis-related fracture hospital admissions among 9.2 million Medicare enrollees in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic between 2003-2010, suggest that even a small increase in PM2.5 concentrations would lead to an increase in …

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(2017-12-02), Bad break: Osteoporosis-related bone fractures linked to air pollution, Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 388, ISSN: 1532-4664, BUTTER® ID: 014744135