Osteoporosis occurs when the body loses the ability to form enough neurons. During a healthy bone remodeling, osteoclast eat away the bone tissue and osteoblasts refill the bone with new ones. Body uses calcium and phosphate to produce strong bones during youth which helps to continue this process. When the calcium intake is not sufficient or if the body does not absorb enough calcium from the food, bone production and bone tissues may suffer. The bones become less strong and more prone to fractures. In Fact in people with osteoporosis, the bone fracture can often occur with little stress. Osteoporosis occurs gradually with aging and is more commonly found in women.
Osteoporosis though prevalent in women, can not be ignored in men either. A study at
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, shows that osteoporosis is also posing a threat to millions of men. It further tells that after the age of 50, over 5 percent of men suffer from hip fracture and over 4 percent from vertebral fracture just because of osteoporosis.
According to another independent study, in just one year, 1990 about 30% of the 1.7 million hip fractures worldwide occurred in men. By 2025, the number of hip fractures in men will be the same as in women. The hip fracture causes 3% more complications and chances of death in men than in women.
HPV is a virus that is contracted by both men and women, so there is every possibility that a male may acquire HPV. As of now, there is no clinically approved medical test available for men to detect HPV. Normally a doctor can visually examine the penis and surrounding areas for genital warts that usually appear on the scrotum, anus, penis and thighs in men. Although men are not at a high risk compared to women, carcinogenic genital warts on the penis can lead to ‘squamous-cell’ cancer of the penis. It is also known that in most males, the HPV will disappear on its own without causing any health risk.
Males are susceptible to some 30 strains of the virus that can lead to the cancer of the anus or the penis. The risk is higher in sexually active homosexual males or those practicing bisexual sex, and those with AIDS /HIV. Overall, the high-risk cancer causing HPV is rarely present in males, and the low-risk HPV that causes warts is the most active.
While males contract HPV, there are no certified clinical procedures or means of diagnosing the genital warts, and most doctors rely on the visual check to confirm the presence. Sometimes, applications of vinegar help in raising the warts which otherwise may not be visible. Nevertheless, these tests are not fool-proof and even normal skin can give the appearance of a wart due to the stinging stimulation of vinegar. A doctor may recommend a pathological anal pap test as the risk of cancer may increase. The Pap test would be done on the tissue cells collected from the anal region of susceptible males who get HPV.
For males who get HPV, there are no confirmed and accepted forms of diagnosis and no prescribed treatment. In most cases, the doctors are compelled to treat the health problems arising from the cause instead of the infection itself; however, males who get HPV are not at all at the risk level as compared to females.
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