OBESITY AND OSTEOPOROSIS

Abstract

Obesity is no longer synonymous with protection against all fragility bone fractures. Given the prevalence of obesity in the general population, fractures in obese postmenopausal women contribute to an overall fracture burden in the general population. The occurrence of fractures in obese patients had a sitespecific distribution. The pathophysiology of fragility fractures associated with obesity is not fully elucidated. The increased risk of falls and the negative changes induced by obesity on the biomechanics of falls contribute significantly to the specificities of the effects of obesity on fracture risk.