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Can Wrinkles be a Symptom for Fragile Bones?

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Experts reckon that India has 36 million osteoporosis patients,majority of them older women.Also post menopausal women at risk are hardly screened for it.Yale researchers studied 100 women in their late 40's and early 50's who had just entered menopause and found that women with the most wrinkles had the lowest bone density at major sites such as the hip and spine.Bone and skin share common building blocks,  a group of proteins called collagen which decrease with age says study author Lubna Pal ... Read More
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