Nutrition et vieillissement osseux: L’ostéoporose

Incidence of osteoporosis increases with ageing, and consequences to mortality, morbidity and quality of life are major. Increasing needs of calcium and decreasing « intakes » of vitamin D lead to osteopenia. Other micronutrients deficiences and decreasing proteic intakes participate to this phenomenon. Risk of fracture could be prevent by adapted dietary councelling.