Vd.Vibha Sood

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is morbidity found in peri and post-menopausal women. The term Menopause is made up of two words “Meno” and “Pause”. Meno refers to Menstruation (month) and Pause denotes, to stop, cessation. Therefore, menopause refers to “permanent cessation of menstruation”. This results from loss of ovarian follicular activity. Natural Menopause is recognized to have occurred after 12 consecutive months of amenorrhoea, for which there is no other obvious pathological or physiological cause. An adequate biological marker for the event does not exist. The term Peri-Menopause is the period surrounding Menopause – before, during and after. The length of…