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Why middle-aged women after menopause suffer from osteoporosis?

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Osteoporosis is a disease that causes bones to become thin and brittle. Because after menopause estrogen level in the body of females falls which decreases the activity of osteoblasts causing the bones to become thin and brittle.
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