Men’s health is pretty much the same as women’s health concerns, except when it comes for a few things that women simply don’t have or men simply don’t have, like a prostate or breasts for example.  One of the ways that men and women no longer differ though, when it comes to men’s health screenings and testing now, is bone health. 

It used to be the primary concern in bone health was for women to get screenings for bone density, since due to higher levels of the hormone estrogen in women, women are more susceptible to osteoporosis, which is a condition where the bones becomes porous and are more easily damaged and broken.  I know that the women in my family have not been succeptible to this, so for example, I might be one of the safer ones when it comes to the likelihood of whether I will get osteoporosis.

Not only is there just a bone screening test now, for both men and women (by the way, it’s men over seventy years old who are going to want to be most concerned with having their bone density checked), but they also factor in other variables which may help predict how likely a man or woman is to break a bone in the near future, such as whether or not a parent had ever broken a hip, which would put them in a higher risk category, since genetics is looked at in osteoporosis. 

While post menopausal women are still at the highest risk for osteoporosis, and will be the group most targeted for getting in to get bone mineral density xrays and other tests of the like, men over seventy will still be encouraged to participate as a precaution as well, and also be given men’s health supplements with calcium and other minerals and nutrients which help to fortify bone strength and naturally encourage a denser bone that is less likely to break under pressure from a fall or other similar trauma.