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CHAKAL, F; CASTELLI, B; DURAN, J  e  MEDINA, G. Factores de Riesgo y Baja Masa Ósea en la Ciudad de Mérida. RFM [online]. 2001, vol.24, n.2, pp.181-184. ISSN 0798-0469.

The purpose of our work was to determine the presence of factors of osteoporosis risk factors and the decrease of the bone mass, in women older than 49 years in the city of Merida. They reviewed a hundred sixty three (163) women’s records in which they were older than 49 years and lived in this city, in which 39 of them were carried out studies of bone densitometry, to this group were determined the risk factors and they were statiscally analyzed. When carrying out the analysis between risk factors and decrease of the bone mass, none of them had statistical significance. Among the studied factors, the nursing, the sedentarism and the intolerance to the milky products, they were those of more relative but not statistically significant.

Palavras-chave : Risk factors; Low bone mass; Bone densitometry (BMD).